Science And Technology (Railway)

• RISAT-2B, or Radar Imaging Satellite-2B was launched on 22 May 2019.

• RISAT (Radar Imaging Satellite) is a series of Indian radar imaging reconnaissance satellites built by ISRO.

• It was launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from Sriharikota in coastal Andhra Pradesh on 1 April 2019.

• It has been developed under Defence Research and Development Organisation project Kautilya.

• It is the ultimate robotic solution for manhole cleaning involving robotic innovations.

• It was developed by Kerala based GenRobotics in February 2018.

• It has quadruplex digital fly-by-wire Flight Control System (FCS) with associated advanced flight control laws.

• It is powered by a General Electric 85kN F404-GE-IN20 turbofan engine.

• The Sputnik-1 spacecraft was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth.

• It was the first in a series of four satellites as part of the Sputnik program of the former Soviet Union.

• It was the sole body responsible for constructing and operating India's commercial nuclear power plants till setting up of BHAVINI Vidyut Nigam) in October 2003.

• Nuclear power plants uses U-235 as fuel because its atoms are easily split apart.

• AVGC COE was launched with pioneering high technology digital media hub under its Innovate Karnataka initiative.

• It is funded by the Department of Electronics Information Technology Biotechnology and Science & Technology.

• The test was conducted to check the robustness of the engine by operating beyond.its nominal operating conditions.

• It is a new generation, state of the art, web-based application developed entirely in-house by team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army.

• The application is being deployed on the Army's internal network as a replacement of Army Wide Area Network (AWAN) messaging application.