Technology - General Knowledge or GK, Current Affairs for the month of February-2024
The Gaganyaan Mission is India’s first human space flight programme.
India’s plan to establish its own space station by 2035.
NTPC Green Energy. The hub will come up near Pudimadaka village of Atchutapuram Mandal in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
India’s first septic tank cleaning robot
Mundra, Gujarat
An International collaboration of researchers has successfully demonstrated the laser cooling of positronium, a short-lived hydrogen-like atom that provides an ideal testing ground for bound-state quantum electrodynamics. The Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy (AEgIS) collaboration has performed complex experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in order to obtain this breakthrough.
The Odysseus spacecraft from the United States successfully landed on the moon on 22nd February 2024, becoming the first American Spacecraft to achieve the feat in more than 50 years. With this, with this Intuitive Machines (IM) – the commercial venture behind Nova-C lander – has become the first private venture to carry out a successful landing on the lunar surface.
The landing site of Odysseus is near Malapert A, an impact crater near the moon’s south pole.
Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created next-generation anti-counterfeiting tags harnessing terahertz waves that can remotely detect tampering or removal attempts from product packaging due to their novel tamper-proof adhesive design with embedded micro particles.
Reliance Industries, in collaboration with some of India’s premier engineering institutions, has announced to lunch its pioneering ChatGpt-style service named ‘Hanooman’.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced the successful first orbital launch of its next-generation H3 launch vehicle on 18th January 2024. The new flagship rocket delivered its test payload into intended orbit. (H3 rocket development is a joint collaboration of JAXA and Japanese Manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced to launch LignoSat, the world’s first wooden satellite. Developed by Kyoto University scientist in partnership with Sumitomo Forestry, this innovative initiative aims to revolutionize spaceflight operations by prioritizing sustainability.
Constructed from Magnolia wood, the LignoSat probe offers a biodegradable alternative to conventional spacecraft materials.
ISRO launched INSTAT-3DS satellite on launch vehicle GSLV-F14 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on 17th February 2024.
Dr Karan Nathwani, a professor in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Jammu.
Dubai
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found a ‘Super-Earth’, a planet that could potentially support life. This planet, called TOI-715 is 137 light-years away from earth and is about one and half times as wide as Earth
Woman robot astronaut named ‘Vyommitra’ that will fly into space ahed of ISRO’s ambitious “Gaganyaan” mission.
NASA has begun conducting marathon research flights across Asia in order to improve air pollution forecasting models. The flights involve NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory, the world’s largest aircraft designed for airborne science missions. Staring in the Philippines, the DC-8 is flying for up to 8 hours at a time, sometimes as low as 15 meters above the ground, to collect air pollution particles for analysis.
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) at Cochin International Airport Limited.
28th February 2024