1. Joint US-Australian military research team successfully tested a hypersonic technology in Australian desert as part of HIFiRE (__________) Programme. During test, scramjet attached to a rocket booster was successfully sent to an altitude of 278 km at Mach 7.5 (seven times speed of sound) ?
2. After successful test of Reusable launch Vehicle- Technology Demonstration (RLV-TD), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will test an ABPS (__________), aimed to capitalize on oxygen in atmosphere instead of liquefied oxygen while in flight. These activities are part of ISRO's efforts to to bring down cost of launch vehicles. ?
3. Astronomers discovered 3 planets with similar size and temperatures as those of Venus and Earth, using ___________ telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. They arE orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star at approx 40 light-years from Earth ?
4. Australian researchers at University of Newcastle built world’s first SHeM (________). It would enable scientists to study human, animal and plant samples, as well as pharmaceutical drugs and computer chips in their true state ?
5. ______ will launch world's first quantum communication satellite in July 2016, to improve security of data transmission. It will use quantum photons, which cannot be separated or duplicated, making communication immune to wiretapping or interceptions ?
6. Government announced that currently ______ Indian satellites are operational in space ?
7. Group of researchers from University of Cambridge built worlds smallest (nanoscale) working engine, led by Jeremy Baumberg from Cavendish Laboratory. They named it ANTs (________). This Nanoscale engine is just a few billionths of a metre in size and uses light to power itself ?
8. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) is putting studying rain formation in clouds through a research program called CAIPEEX (__________). Under this experiment, air borne observations are taken through randomized cloud seeding and the impact is recorded ?
9. Indian Space Research Organization successfully tested a RLVTD (___________) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh). With this, India moved a step close to developing a space vehicle that can fly numerous times into space ?
10. NASA's unmanned ________ space observatory discovered largest trove (group) of exoplanets outside our solar system. Of the new trove of 1,284 exoplanets, nearly 550 are said to be rocky planets like Earth. ?
11. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully deployed first experimental inflatable room attached to International Space Station (ISS). Experimental inflatable room is dubbed as BEAM (_________), built by Nevada Company Bigelow Aerospace ?
12. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a super pressure balloon to conduct near-space scientific investigations, from South Island Wanaka Airport (______). The balloon is 532,000 cubic metres and aims to remain airborne for more than 100 days ?
13. National Aeronautics and Space Asdministration (NASA) unveiled first global digital elevation (topographic model) of Mercury, made by 10000 images captured by NASA’s MESSENGER (_______) mission ?
MErcury Space , Surface ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
MArs Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Radar
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEology, and Ranging
Mercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
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14. Scientists at University of Montreal (________) developed worlds Smallest (Nano) Thermometer using DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) structures that can resize at specifically defined temperature functions. Worlds smallest thermometer is 20,000 times smaller than a human hair and is fully programmable ?
15. Scientists from Queen’s University (________) developed world’s first holographic flexible smartphone named‚ HoloFlex, that lets users to interact with 3D Media without using any headgear or glasses. HoloFlex features a high-definition Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (FOLED) touch-screen display ?
16. Scientists from Trinity College Dublins School of Physics and CRANN Institute discovered a new property of light based on _________, opening up ways to alter basic understanding of fundamental nature of light ?
17. Scientists from University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) developed world's first genetically engineered clone of ________ virus strain. They dubbed it as infectious complementary DNA (cDNA) clone ?
18. Scientists have detected atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time. It was detected using an instrument onboard the SOFIA (_______) ?
19. World's first robot lawyer‚ ROSS‚ has been employed by a _______ law firm BakerHostetler. It will assist the law firm in legal research. ?
