Latest Space General Knowledge(GK) Questions and answers

1 .

California - based private spaceflight company Space X has launched which secret mission for United States government?

A)

Zuma

B)

Dream Chaser

C)

Sprint

D)

Cygnus

Correct Answer : Zuma

Spacexcmsadmin (29 January 2016). "Zuma mission". SpaceX. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer, space transportation services and communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. SpaceX manufactures the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, several rocket engines, Dragon cargo, crew spacecraft and Starlink communications satellites.

SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 in 2008), the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon in 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (Dragon in 2012), the first vertical take-off and vertical propulsive landing for an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2015), the first reuse of an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2017), and the first private company to send astronauts to orbit and to the International Space Station (SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 in 2020). SpaceX has flown and reflown the Falcon 9 series of rockets over one hundred times.

2 .

Which is the brightest star in our night sky?

A)

Canopus

B)

Sirius A

C)

Spica

D)

Vega

Correct Answer : Sirius A

Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The name means "glowing" in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets, the full moon and the International Space Station outshine this star.

3 .

What is the name of the probe to be launched by NASA in 2018 to explore the Sunâ€™s outer atmosphere?

A)

Sheild Solar Probe

B)

Delta Solar Probe

C)

Parker Solar Probe

D)

Hopkin Solar Probe

Correct Answer : Parker Solar Probe

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, travels directly through the Sun's atmosphere --ultimately to a distance of bout 4 million miles from the surface. Parker Solar Probe launched aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Aug. 12, 2018 at 3:31 a.m. EDT.

4 .

Which one is India's first satellite exclusively used for educational purpose

A)

EDUSAT

B)

SARAL

C)

HAMSAT

D)

RISAT-1

Correct Answer : EDUSAT

GSAT-3, known as EDUSAT is meant for distant class room education from school level to higher education. This was the first dedicated "Educational Satellite" that provide the country with satellite based two way communication to class room for delivering educational materials.

5 .

What is the name of ecologically clean rocket developed by Russia based space research center?

A)

Korolev

B)

Vostok

C)

Luna

D)

Angara

Correct Answer : Angara

The Angara rocket family is a family of space-launch vehicles being developed by the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Russia.

6 .

What is the name of the eighth planet discovered by NASA, circling Kepler- 90?

A)

Keplerâ€“90g

B)

Keplerâ€“90i

C)

Keplerâ€“90h

D)

Keplerâ€“908

Correct Answer : Keplerâ€“90i

On 14 December 2017, NASA and Google announced the discovery of an eighth planet, Kepler-90i, in the Kepler-90 system: the discovery was made using a new machine learning method developed by Google.

7 .

The planet Mars is also known as the

A)

Red planet

B)

Morning star

C)

Evening star

D)

Blue planet

Correct Answer : Red planet

Mars is known as the Red Planet. It is red because the soil looks like rusty iron. Mars has two small moons. Their names are Phobos (FOE-bohs) and Deimos (DEE-mohs).

8 .

The third generation anti-tank missile that was successfully test fired by DRDO at Rajasthan is named

A)

Agni

B)

Toophan

C)

Cobra

D)

Nag

Correct Answer : Nag

The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)on Tuesday successfully test fired anti-tank missile 'Nag' in a desert in the western sector of Rajasthan.

9 .

Which one is first surface to surface missile in India

A)

Trishul

B)

Akash

C)

Prithvi

D)

Nag

Correct Answer : Prithvi

The Prithvi was India's first indigenously developed ballistic missile produced by the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP).

10 .

Which one is India's first operational remote sensing satellite

A)

GSAT-1

B)

IRS-1A

C)

PSLV-D3

D)

INSAT-1A

Correct Answer : IRS-1A

IRS-1A, the first of the series of indigenous state-of-art operating remote sensing satellites, was successfully launched into a polar sun-synchronous orbit on March 17, 1988 from the Soviet Cosmodrome at Baikonur.