03-01-2018, 04:29 PM
*The world’s first talking robot sent into space is Kirobo (Japan in 2013)
*Twin of Kirobo
Ans : Mirata
*The farthest man-made object from earth
Ans : Voyager -1
*The first man made space shuttle to leave the solar system
Ans : Voyager I
*Closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system
Ans : Wolf 1061C
*NASA’s next generation geostationary weather satellites successfully launched recently
Ans : GOES - R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R)
AMOS-6
*First ever satellite of Facebook AMOS -6
*AMOS 6 satellite was destroyed in a space rocket explosion on 1 September 2016, before its scheduled launch
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*US based rocket manufacturing company that successfully launched constellation of 10 satellites on board of its two stage Falcon 9 Rocket
Ans : Space X
*Two high resolution remote sensing satellites launched by china to get commercial images
Ans : Super View - 01 & 02
*The super galaxy clusters discovered near the Milkyway recently
Ans : Vela Super Cluster
*The solid fuel rocket launched recently by Japan
Ans : Epsilon 2
*The global carbondioxide monitoring satellite launched recently by China
Ans : Tansat
*Name the three countries that have its own satellite to monitor green house gases
Ans : Japan, US & China.
*First country to launch a fully owned overseas satellite ground station near the North pole
Ans : China (Remote Sensing Satellite North Pole Ground Station)
*The country that successfully launched space Junk collector into orbit with the aim to study possibility of getting rid of Space Junk (debris) left into orbit by earlier space exploration missions
Ans : Japand
