1. What is CMB?

Ans: CMB stands for Cosmic Microwave Background. It is also sometimes called the CBR, for
Cosmic Background Radiation, although this is really a more general term that includes
other cosmological backgrounds, eg infra-red, radio, x-ray, gravity-wave, neutrino. The
CMB contains hugely more energy than any other cosmic radiation source, however, so it is
the dominant component of the overall CBR spectrum. Other acronyms, such as CMBR,
are also sometimes used.

2. How many satellites India have?

Ans: India has launched 116 satellites since 1975. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is
responsible for India's Space Program. In February 2017, ISRO has created a new record by
launching 104 satellites in one go. Out of these 104 satellites, only 3 of these were Indian
Satellites.

3. How do we know that cosmic background radiation exists?

Ans: The Big Bang theory predicts that the early universe was a very hot place and that as it
expands, the gas within it cools. Thus the universe should be filled with radiation that is
literally the remnant heat left over from the Big Bang, called the “cosmic microwave
background"

4. Explain Weather Satellite?

Ans: Weather Satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and
climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the
Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting
over the equator while moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation. These meteorological
satellites, however, see more than clouds and cloud systems. City lights, fires, effects of
pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean
currents, energy flows, etc., are other types of environmental information collected using
weather satellites.

5. How was CMB discovered?

Ans: Theoretical work around 1950 showed the need for a CMB for consistency with the
simplest relativistic universe models. In 1964, US physicist Arno Penzias and radio-
astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson rediscovered the CMB, estimating its temperature as
3.5 K, as they experimented with the Holmdel Horn Antenna.

6. Where is the cold spot?

Ans: The CMB Cold Spot or WMAP Cold Spot is a region of the sky seen in microwaves that
has been found to be unusually large and cold relative to the expected properties of the
cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR).

7. How does a telescope work?

Ans: The telescope contains an objective, a large lens or mirror that acts as a big light funnel,
collecting light and bringing it to a focus. The telescope also contains an eyepiece, a small
lens that acts as a magnifying glass to enlarge the image created by the objective.

8. What is an eyepiece?
Ans: An eyepiece is a magnifier, much like a high power magnifying glass. When placed at the
real image made by the lens or mirror of a telescope, the eyepiece projects a virtual image
into your eye, enabling you to see the target.

9. What does OTA stand for?

Ans: OTA stands for Optical Tube Assembly. This is usually something that is stated in a
telescopes name or description if the product only includes the telescopes optical tube and
does not come with a tripod.

10. Which is the most efficient detector?

Ans: Charge Coupled Device (CCD)

11. Yes or No, Optical telescopes use domes as a form of shelter.

Ans: Yes

12. True or False, A radio telescope has an aperture.

Ans: True

13. True or False: TES (Technology Experimental Satellite) is India's first Defence satellite?
Ans: True

14. What is the most powerful telescope on Earth?

Ans: Named the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), it will be 100 times more powerful than
the Hubble Space Telescope

15. The first country to send nuclear powered spacecraft to explore Jupiter
Ans: U.S.A.

16. The first spaceship in the world to sample moon’s crust

Ans: Surveyor-3 (U.S.A.)

17. The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days)
Ans: Apollo-7 (U.S.A.)

18. What is the speed of rover Pragyan?

Ans: 1cm/sec

19. The first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon
Ans: Apollo-8 (U.S.A.)

20. True or False, The Evpatoria RT-70 telescope in the Ukraine is a radar telescope.
Ans: True

21. An optical telescope is able to resolve blue objects better than red objects.
Ans: True

22. To double the light gathering power of a telescope, we need to double the diameter.
Ans: False

23. Name the two women who are the head of Chandrayaan 2 mission?
Ans: Ritu Kridhal & M Vanitha

24. The first woman of Indian origin in space

Ans: Kalpana Chawla

25. According to ISRO, chandrayaan-2 moon mission explored which area of the moon?
Ans: Moon’s South Pole

26. Which is the most powerful rocket in India?

Ans: The rocket geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle - MARK III (GSLV MK-III), which
carried Chandrayaan-2 on its moon mission.

27. What is the orbiter mass of chandrayaan-2?

Ans: 2379 kg

28. True or False, The Large Binocular Telescope is located at Kitt Peak in Arizona USA.
Ans: False
29. First private, manned spacecraft
Ans: Spaceship one (launched on June 21, 2004)

30. Which rocket vehicle is used to launch Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft?

Ans: GSLV MK-III

31. India’s first mapping satellite

Ans: Cartosat-i (launched on May 5, 2005)

32. The first lunar orbiter of china

Ans: Chang’e-i (launched on October 24, 2007 from Xichang satellite launch centre of south-
western sichuan province)

33. True or False: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a 12-meter sphere filled with heavy
water surrounded by light detectors located 2 km above the ground in Sudbury, Ontario,
Canada.
Ans: False

34. True or False: The various background effects OSO 1 encountered prompted the flight of
similar detectors on a balloon to determine the cosmic-ray effects in the materials
surrounding the detectors?
Ans: False

35. How many instruments that the orbiter contains?

Ans: 8

36. What can a GSLV do?

Ans: A GSLV can project a satellite of 2500 kg mass in a geostationary orbit at 35786 km height.

37. What is used as liquid fuel in rockets?

Ans: A mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is used as liquid fuel in rockets.

38. Give an example of a solid fuel used in a rocket.

Ans: A powdered mixture of aluminum and ammonium perchlorate (or ammonium nitrate) is
used as solid fuel in a rocket.

39. From where and when the EDUSAT launched?

Ans: EDUSAT was launched on September 20, 2004 from Dr. Satishdhavan satellite launching
station, Shriharikota, in Andhrapradesh.
40. What Is a Spy Satellite?
Ans: A spy satellite officially referred to as a reconnaissance satellite is an Earth observation
satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications.
These are essentially space telescopes that are pointed toward the Earth instead of toward
the stars. The first generation type took photographs, and then ejected canisters of
photographic film, which would descend to earth.

41. What are the components of Chandrayaan 2?

Ans: the orbiter, the lander Vikram and rover pragyan.

42. What is the purpose of EDUSAT?

Ans: The purpose of EDUSAT is educational activity through satellite.

43. Which type of information can be obtained by remote sensing satellites?

Ans: Information’s like geological survey of metallic ores in the earth's crust, environmental
changes, water resources, agricultural resources, diseases spread in crops, oceanic
phenomena, etc can be obtained by remote sensing satellites.

44. Describe briefly the main advantages offered by satellite communication.

Ans: 1. Very economical
2. Distance insensitive
3. It can link many users who are widely separated graphically
4. Telephone, data and video services
5. Remote sensing like detection of water pollution and monitoring and reporting of
weather conditions.

45. What is a communications satellite?

Ans: A communications satellite or COMSAT is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the
purpose of telecommunications.

46. What is ASAT?

Ans: ASAT is anti-satellite weapon system that is designed to destroy or incapacitate satellites

47. How to facilitate frequency planning is done in the world for Satellite Services? How to
divide Frequency Allocations for Satellite Services based regions?
Ans: Region1: Europe, Africa,(formerly the Soviet Union)and Mongolia
Region 2: North and South America and Greenland
Region3: Asia, Australia, and the south- west Pacific
48. What is the speed required to launch a satellite into orbit?
Ans: 17,000 mph.

49. What is various satellite services allocated depending on frequency bands? How to classify
satellite services?
Ans: 1. Fixed satellite service (FSS)
2. Broadcasting satellite service (BSS)
3. Mobile satellite services
4. Navigational satellite services and
5. Meteorological satellite services

50. What is remote sensing?

Ans: Remote sensing is a method by which information about a substance; matter or a
phenomenon can be obtained using scientific instruments without direct contact with
them.

51. Where is Asia's biggest telescope?

Ans: The largest telescope in Asia is a 3.6-meter telescope set up at Devasthal, Nainital,

52. How many rockets are there in a space shuttle?

Ans: A space shuttle has in all five rockets (engines)

53. What is a Miniaturized Satellite?

Ans: Miniaturized satellites or small satellites are artificial satellites of unusually low weights and
small sizes, usually under 500 kg (1100 lb). While all such satellites can be referred to as
small satellites, different classifications are used to categorize them based on mass.

54. What is the Global Navigation Satellite System?

Ans: Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is the standard generic term for satellite
navigation systems (“sat nav”) that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global
coverage. GNSS allows small electronic receivers to determine their location (longitude,
latitude, and altitude) to within a few metres using time signals transmitted along a line-of-
sight by radio from satellites. Receivers calculate the precise time as well as position, which
can be used as a reference for scientific experiments.

55. What is the name of the rover that is carried by lander Vikram ?
Ans: Pragyan
56. What is earth observation satellite?
Ans: Earth observation satellites are satellites specifically designed to observe Earth from orbit,
similar to reconnaissance satellites but intended for non-military uses such as
environmental monitoring, meteorology, map making etc. Geostationary satellites hover
over the same spot, providing continuous monitoring to a portion of the Earth’s surface.
Polar orbiting satellites provide global coverage, but only twice per day at any given spot.

57. What is tether satellite?

Ans: Tether satellite is a satellite connected to another by a thin cable called a tether. The space
tether idea had its origin in the late 1800s. The idea became more popular in the 1960s,
and subsequently NASA examined the feasibility of the idea and gave direction to the study
of tethered systems, especially tethered satellites.

58. What will the temperature of the cosmic microwave background be?
Ans: The cosmic microwave background was first predicted in 1948 by Ralph Alpher and Robert
Herman. Alpher and Herman were able to estimate the temperature of the cosmic
microwave background to be 5 K, though two years later they re-estimated it at 28 K.

59. What is biosatellite?

Ans: A biosatellite is a satellite designed to carry life in space.

60. What is a radio telescope?

Ans: A radio telescope is basically a very sensitive radio receiver. Whereas communications
receivers are designed to extract information which has been intentionally modulated onto
a radio wave, radio telescope receivers are designed to measure the intensity of the radio
wave over some band of frequencies. A radio telescope is essentially an energy measuring
device.

61. What is a Remote Sensing satellite?

Ans: A Remote Sensing satellite is intended for natural resource monitoring and management
and operates from a Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit (SSPO)

62. How are satellites broadly classified?

Ans: Satellites are broadly classified into two, viz., Communication satellites and Remote Sensing
satellites

63. How many satellites have been launched by India?

Ans: India has launched 319 satellites for 33 different countries as of 11 December 2019.
64. Expand RAMBHA?
Ans: Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive ionosphere and Atmosphere

65. Which radiation is the most useful to map the structure of our Galaxy?
Ans: 21 cm radio radiation

66. ________ range in wavelength from millimeters to hundreds of meters.

Ans: Radio Waves

67. Maps of Venus have been made by

Ans: Bouncing radio waves off the planet from satellites and the Earth.

68. Why are observatories built on mountain tops?

Ans: The reason large telescopes are built on tall mountains or put in space is to get away from
the distortion of starlight due to the atmosphere.

69. What is the name of the space telescope that was launched by ISRO in 2015?
Ans: Astrosat is India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space telescope. It was launched on a
PSLV-XL on 28 September 2015.

70. How does LIGO detect gravitational waves?

Ans: When a gravitational wave passes by Earth, it squeezes and stretches space. LIGO can detect
this squeezing and stretching. ... A passing gravitational wave causes the length of the arms
to change slightly. The observatory uses lasers, mirrors, and extremely sensitive instruments
to detect these tiny changes.

71. How is interceptor missile useful?

Ans: It is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic
flight trajectory.

72. How many gravitational wave detectors are there?

Ans: Ground-based interferometers are now operational. Currently, the most sensitive is LIGO –
the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. LIGO has three detectors: one in
Livingston, Louisiana; the other two (in the same vacuum tubes) at the Hanford site in
Richland, Washington.

73. What is LIGO used for?

Ans: Its purpose is to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave
observations as an astronomical tool. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
 Observatory (LIGO) is a facility dedicated to the detection of cosmic gravitational waves
and the measurement of these waves for scientific research.

74. Do gravitational waves travel faster than light?

Ans: No, gravitational waves also travel at the speed of light in vacuum. However, the interstellar
medium is not perfectly empty but filled with plasmas which slow electromagnetic waves
(light, radio) down by a factor n, the refractive index.

75. How many gravitational waves are detected?

Ans: Total detections up to 11 now.

76. About how many of the 8,000 objects orbiting the earth are designed as satellites and are not
just "junk"?
Ans: About 2,500.

77. Which is the largest telescope observatory in the world?

Ans: the Gran Telescopio Canarias

78. How do space observatories work?

Ans: A space observatory is any instrument (such as a telescope) in outer space which is used for
observation of distant objects. Planets, stars, galaxies, and other outer space objects may be
viewed and recorded. ... All observation of space from Earth is filtered through the Earth's
atmosphere.

79. What are the types of satellite?

Ans:
 Anti-Satellite weapons/”Killer Satellites”
 Astronomical satellites
 Biosatellites
 Communications satellites
 Miniaturized satellites
 Navigational satellites
 Reconnaissance satellites
 Earth observation satellites
 Space stations
 Tether satellites
 Weather satellites

80. Russia’s first spaceship with an international crew on board.

Ans: Remek (Czechoslovakia)

81. What is INTELSAT?

Ans: INTELSAT stands for International Telecommunications Satellite. INTELSAT covers
three main regions—the Atlantic Ocean Region (AOR), the Indian Ocean Region
(IOR),and the Pacific OceanRegion (POR) INTELSAT satellites provide a much wider
range of services than those available previously, including such services as Internet, DTH
TV, telemedicine, tele education, and interactive video and multimedia.

82. What are the uses of Mobile satellite services?

Ans: Mobile satellite services are used for land mobile, maritime mobile, and aeronautical mobile.
The L band is used for mobile satellite services. The very high frequency (VHF) band is
used for certain mobile phones.

83. What is meant by SARSAT?

Ans: Search and rescue satellite.

84. What is meant by INTELSAT?

Ans: International Telecommunication Satellite.

85. What are Low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites?

Ans: Polar orbiting satellites orbit to cover the north and south Polar Regions of earth. Intheory,
there are an infinite number of polar orbits, whereas there is only one geostationary
orbit.Weather satellites have led to use of relatively low orbits, ranging in altitude between
800 and 900 km, compared with 36,000 km for the geostationary orbit. These are called
asLow earth orbiting (LEOSATS) satellites

86. Which is the first operational launch vehicle of India?

Ans: PSLV is the first operational launch vehicle of India. It had so far three developmental
flights and nineteen operational flights - 21 continuously successful flights.

87. List out the INSAT series.

Ans: • INSAT-1
• INSAT-2
• INSAt-2A
• INSAT-2E
• INSAT-3

88. Why is space observation important?

Ans: Space observation is important for the following reasons: - There are many threats which
can come from outer space and negatively affect our planet, such as meteoroid, space
radiation and many more.

89. Where was the first modern astronomical observatory built in India?
Ans: The Madras Observatory was founded by the British East India Company in 1786 in
Chennai (then Madras). For over a century it was the only astronomical observatory in
India that exclusively worked on the stars.

90. When, and from where, Chandrayaan-1 was launched?

Ans: Chandrayaan-1 was launched on October 22, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at
Sriharikota (SHAR), India.

91. How many years did it take to make the GSLV heaviest launch vehicle?
Ans: 15years

92. About how many lives are saved each day by search-and-rescue operations based on satellite
information?
Ans: About 10,000.

93. What is INSAT?

Ans: INSAT – Indian National Satellite System.
INSAT is a Indian National Satellite System for telecommunications, broadcasting,
meteorology and search and rescue services. It was commissioned in 1983. INSATwas the
largest domestic communication system in the Asia-Pacific region.

94. Write about broadcasting satellite services (BSS)

Ans: Broadcasting satellite services are intended mainly for direct broadcast to the home, also
called as direct broadcast satellite(DBS)service[in Europe it is known as direct-to-
home(DTH)service]. The Ku band (12 to 14 GHz) is used for DBS

95. How long was Chandrayaan-1 operational?

Ans: Chandrayaan-1 was operational for 312 days till August 28, 2009.

96. What is the name of the Lander that will be tucked into the GSLV MK3 vehicle?
Ans: Vikram

97. What Wisconsin scientist pioneered satellite meteorology research and became known as the
Father of Satellite Meteorology
Ans: Dr. Verner E. Suomi (1915-1995)

98. When were the first weather satellite launched and what country accomplished this?
Ans: 1960, U.S.A.

99. What are the two main types of remote sensing instruments flown on weather satellites?
Ans: Radiometers & Sounders

100. Which radiometers can collect data at night? Why?

Ans: Infrared (IR) radiometers measure how much heat an object emits and can collect data 24
hours a day. Visible radiometers measure reflected sunlight and can only be used during the
daytime.

101. Satellite technology is one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, name
at least 2 more and list your reasons for your choices.
Ans: Computers, the Internet, etc

102. Speed needed to travel around a planet.

A. Thrust
B. Orbital velocity
C. Escape velocity
D. Warp
Ans: B

103. Why must radio telescopes have very large dishes?

A. Radio waves have lower energy. So to collect enough radio photons to detect a signal, the
radio dishes must be very large.
B. Radio-emitting objects are very far from Earth, and so are very dim.
C. Large radio telescopes are easier to repair than small instruments.
D. The large dish is to compensate for atmospheric absorption of radio waves.
Ans: A

104. In which spectral region is it possible for astronomers to observe through clouds?
A. Visual
B. Radio
C. Ultraviolet
D. X-ray
Ans: B
105. Hybrid rocket engines are also called ________ propellant rocket engines.
A. Solid
B. Liquid
C. Solid & liquid
D. None of the mentioned
Ans: B

106. Geosynchronous satellites are always launched in the equatorial plane because it is the only
plane which provides
A. 24-hour orbit
B. Stationary satellite
C. Global communication
D. Zero-gravity environs
Ans: C

107. A few minutes disturbance in space communications occurs twice a year during Sun
blinding when __________ are in line.
A. Sun and satellite
B. Sun and Earth station
C. Satellite and Earth station
D. Sun, satellite and Earth station
Ans: D

108. After the death of INSAT-IB, the mainstay of the entire Indian satellite network for some
time to come would be
A. INSTELSAT-V
B. INSAT-ID
C. INSAT-2
D. ARABSAT
Ans: D

109. For what reason was the Schmidt telescope specially built to serve as…….
A. A sky camera
B. A radio telescope
C. An optical telescope
D. A solar telescope
Ans: C

110. Refracting telescopes always contain which one of the following?

 A. Mirrors
B. Lenses
C. Television systems
D. Film
Ans: B

111. Which satellite is dedicated as India's first multi wavelength space observatory?
A. Astrosat
B. Srmsat
C. Saral
D. Jugnu
Ans: A

112. Photographic satellite technology was first developed by...

A. The military.
B. Real estate developers.
C. Photographers.
D. Weather forecasters.
Ans: A

113. These are all the forces that act on moving rocket.
A. Lift, weight, gravity & thrust
B. Lift, drag, gravity & thrust
C. Lift, push, pull & drag
D. Lift, thrust & drag
Ans: B

114. What is the full form of IRNSS-1B satellite and when it was launched?
A. Indian Regional Network Satellite, 5 January, 2014
B. Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, 4 April, 2014
C. Indian Reterological Navigation Satellite, 8 April, 2014
D. None of the above
Ans. B

115. The lifetime of a geosynchronous communication ……..

A. 5
B. 10
C. 20
D. 50
Ans: B

116. The best thing about radio telescopes is:

A. They can receive data any time of day and in any weather
B. They can receive very high frequency signals
C. They receive gamma rays
D. They can intercept signals between planets
Ans: A

117. What type of telescope is the Hubble Telescope?

A. Refracting
B. Cassegrain Reflecting
C. Prime Focus Reflecting
D. Newtonian Reflecting
Ans: B

118. Reflecting telescopes differ from refracting telescopes in having

A. No eyepiece lens.
B. Two large objective lenses.
C. A mirror instead of an objective lens.
D. One large objective lens.
Ans: C

119. Modern telescopes don't use film to capture images, instead they use:
A. CCDs
B. USBs
C. HDDs
D. CD-ROMs
Ans: A

120. Astronomers have found the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. What is the
nature of this radiation?
A. It is a bright, uniform, x-ray glow.
B. It is a faint, uniform, radio signal.
C. It is a faint, uniform, x-ray glow.
D. It is a weak and very patchy glow at visible wavelengths.
Ans: B

121. Who invented the telescope?

 A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Hans Lippershay
D. Maria Mitchell
Ans: C

122. The electronic intelligence satellite EMISAT is launched on

A. 21 March, 2019
B. 28 March, 2019
C. 31 March, 2019
D. 1 April, 2019
Ans. D

123. By 1964, communications satellite networks sent messages around the...

A. Solar system.
B. Orbit.
C. World.
D. Country.
Ans: C

124. GSAT-31, which is in news recently, is launched from which of the following places?
A. Sriharikota
B. Moscow
C. French Guiana
D. Florida
Ans: C

125. Which Chinese space probe touched down on the far side of the moon?
A. Chang’e-4 Lunar Probe
B. Chang’e 5-T1 Lunar Probe
C. Yinghuo-1 Lunar Probe
D. Chang’e-3 Lunar Probe
Ans: A

126. Which phenomena are associated with the heliosphere?

A. A region of space where the interstellar medium is blown away by the solar wind
B. A bubble in space
C. Virtually all the material emanates from the sun itself
D. Voyager 2
 E. Voyager 1
F. The termination shock
Ans: A and D

127. Presently, the world’s largest and most advanced multi-purpose communication satellite is
……………
A. INSAT-2
B. Intelsat-V
C. INSAT-ID
D. Olympus-I
Ans: D

128. The Mars Orbiter Mission informally known as

A. Mangalyan
B. Gaganyan
C. Prithviyan
D. None of the above
Ans: A

129. Astronomers use interferometers to

A. Observe extremely dim sources.
B. Measure the speed of remote objects.
C. Detect radiation that otherwise cannot pass through our atmosphere.
D. Enhance the resolving power in sources.
Ans: D

130. The Luna Programme was a series of unmanned space missions launched by which country?
A. Soviet Union
B. United States of America
C. China
D. None of the above
Ans: A

131. First true missile, built in Germany

A. Pigeon
B. Fire arrows
C. Sputnik
D. V-2
Ans: D
132. In satellite communication, highly directional antennas are used to
A. Direct the spot beam to a particular region of space on Earth
B. Strengthen the beam to overcome the cosmic noise
C. Make corrections in change of polarization of the beam
D. Select a particular channel in transmission and reception
Ans: A

133. Why is the CMB so cool now?

A. The expansion of the Universe has cooled the radiation and stretched its wavelengths.
B. Dense clouds of dust have blocked most of it.
C. The cosmological constant has "squashed" its wavelengths and cooled it.
D. Hydrogen atoms have condensed on it and chilled it.
E. None of the above
Ans: A

134. The average noise temperature of Earth, as viewed from space, is ………. °K
A. 254
B. 303
C. 100
D. 500
Ans: A

135. Why must Ultra-Violet observing be done in space?

A. The ozone blocks most of the UV rays in the surface.
B. It’s hard to know exactly where the ozone hole will be to find UV images
C. It’s hard to use UV telescopes and radio telescopes together on the surface.
D. It’s hard to use UV X-Ray telescopes and radio telescopes together on the surface
Ans: A

136. In 1958, the United States launched its first satellite,

A. Laika I.
B. Columbus I.
C. Sputnik I.
D. Explorer I.
Ans: D

137. How was the CMB created?

A. The fusion of H into He by the first stars.
 B. The radioactive decay of uranium.
C. The formation of quarks in the big bang.
D. The burst of radiation from the big bang as it cooled toward 10,000 K.
E. The combined effect of billions of distant quasars.
Ans: D

138. What type of telescope is this?

A. Refractor
B. Reflector
C. Non-Optical
D. X- Ray
Ans: A

139. Which satellite was developed by India and France?

A. Jugnu
B. SRMSAT
C. Megha-Tropiques
D. Youthsat
Ans. C

140. The echo heard by a telephone user on a satellite channel can be removed by using
A. A vocoder
B. A multiplexer
C. Echo suppressor
D. Digital techniques
Ans: C

141. The 1150 kg geosynchronous satellite INSAT-IA parked 36000 km above India had greatly
improved India’s
A. Intelligence gathering capacity
B. Domestic communications
C. Meteorological capability
D. Both (b) and (c)
Ans: D

142. What is the CMBR

A. Cosmic magellanic background radiation
B. Cosmic microwave background radiation
C. Constant multiple background radiation
D. Cosmic Microwave Burrito Regurgitation
Ans: B

143. What factor is being considered when items are attached in the space station?
A. Air pressure
B. Microgravity
C. Heat
D. Oxygen need
Ans: B

144. Functions of artificial satellites includes

A. Calculation of local time
B. Predict formation of hurricane
C. Cloud development studies
D. Both b and c
Ans: D

145. Satellites that revolves around the Earth to send back information about rainfall,
temperature and air pressure are classified as
A. Continental satellites
B. Maritime satellites
C. Weather satellites
D. Frontal satellites
Ans: C

146. The magnification of the object is dependent largely on which of these?

A. Size of the scope
B. Eye-piece
C. The thickness of the mirror
D. The primary mirror
Ans: B

147. The first satellite for Elon Musk’s new Starlink internet service was launched by;
 A. Boeing
B. NASA
C. SpaceX
D. ISRO
Ans: C

148. Name of farthest place in universe where NASA’s spacecraft has recently found evidence of
water.
A. Wire Gross
B. Giant Gracia
C. Ultima Thule
D. Webar Galaxy
Ans: C

149. ISRO Launches PSLV C-45 carrying EMISAT with how many Nano satellites?
A. 28
B. 12
C. 25
D. 32
Ans: A

150. A ground-based telescope to observe x-rays would

A. Be a powerful tool for studying abnormally cold stars or distant planets.
B. Give astronomers the chance to study the insides of stars and planets.
C. Be worthless because no astronomical objects emit x-rays.
D. Be worthless because x-rays cannot pass through the earth's atmosphere.
E. Be worthless because astronomers have not yet devised detectors for x-rays.
Ans: D

151. ISRO will launch a student satellite called ‘Kalamsat’ and an imaging satellite known as
‘Microsat-R’ on ________.
A. 22 January 2019
B. 20 January 2019
C. 26 January 2019
D. 24 January 2019
Ans: D

152. Which of the following telescopes has recently helped to discover 300000 new galaxies?
A. Hubble
 B. LOFAR
C. Spitzer Space
D. Euclid
Ans: B

153. How do radio telescopes collect radio waves?

A. They collect radio waves using large, curved metal dishes.
B. They collect radio waves using a satellite receiver in the sky.
C. They collect radio waves by bouncing the wave off an object in the sky.
Ans: A

154. What do we call the lens in a telescope that spreads out the light across the retina of your
eye?
A. Convex lens
B. Objective lens
C. Mirror lens
D. Eyepiece
E. Aperture
Ans: D

155. GSAT-31 is launched from which of the following places?

A. Sriharikota
B. Moscow
C. French Guiana
D. Florida
Ans: C

156. The amount of thrust (force) produced by the rocket engines needs to be __________ than
the force of gravity holding it down.
A. Equal
B. Greater
C. Less
Ans: B

157. ISRO and ________ signed an agreement to set up a joint maritime surveillance system.
A. JAXA
B. CNES
C. NASA
D. SpaceX
Ans: B

158. How does the Hubble space telescope see into the past?
A. It observes very old light waves from distant galaxies.
B. It observes very old light waves from Earth.
C. It observes sound waves from galaxies.
Ans: A

159. Recently, which country test fired surface to-air missile “QRSAM” successfully?
A. India
B. South Korea
C. USA
D. Russia
Ans: A

160. Which of the following defence satellites was launched by ISRO for DRDO in March
2019?
A. Kalam SAT
B. Microsat R
C. HySIS
D. Emisat
Ans: D

161. In which asteroid Scientists found evidence of abundant water -bearing minerals?
A. Apollo
B. Chiron
C. Amor
D. Bennu
Ans: D

162. What is the major drawback of radio telescopes?

A. They can only be used at certain hours of the day
B. They are too small
C. They have a low resolution
D. They have complex mirror systems
Ans: C

163. What type of telescope is this?

 A. Refractor
B. Reflector
C. Non-Optical
D. X- Ray
Ans: B

164. India becomes the 4th country to test Anti-satellite missile system named
A. Mission Rohini
B. Mission Bhaskara
C. Mission Shakti
D. Mission OceanSat
Ans: C

165. How many radio observatories were used to get the image of the black hole?
A. 8
B. 6
C. 4
D. 2
Ans: A

166. This imagery detects moisture or lack of moisture in the middle and upper layers of the
troposphere:
A. Visible
B. Infrared
C. Water vapor
Ans: C

167. Spectroscopes use bands of color to identify:

A. Mass of star
B. The elements in the star
C. The weight of the star
D. The sounds the star makes
Ans: B

168. Radio telescopes biggest advantage is that they:

 A. Can be used during the day
B. Can be used in any type of weather
C. Almost all radio waves make it to the surface
D. All of these
Ans: D

169. What are gravitational waves?

A. Faint ripples in space time
B. Fourth dimension which is hard to fathom
C. Collision which sends ripples across the universe
D. Both a and b
Ans: D

170. Depending on the technique used, digitized television requires a bit rate between
__________ millions.
A. 40 and 92.5
B. 25 and 60
C. 30 and 82.5
D. 2
Ans: A

171. In selecting a satellite system, the First determining factor is its

A. Eirp
B. Antenna size
C. Coverage a sea
D. Antenna gain
Ans: C

172. Phase modulation is commonly-used for data transmission mainly because

A. Phase can be varied from + 180° to 180°
B. It is resistant to the effects of noise
C. Demodulation is very easy
D. It gives highest data rates that can be transmitted over a given channel
Ans: B

173. Radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered,

A. The Solar wind
B. Radiation belts around the earth
C. Cosmic microwave background radiation
Ans: C

174. Which of the following was the first Venus exploration mission of the European space
agency?
A. Magellan spacecraft
B. Venus express
C. Vega program
D. Venera mission
Ans: B

175. NWS meteorologists often issue tornado warnings using satellite data. Satellite has a distinct
advantage over radar when it comes to tornado detection.
A. True
B. False
Ans: B

176. Newton built a different kind of telescope that used mirrors to collect light. These are called
_________.
A. Optical telescopes
B. Reflecting telescopes
C. Refracting telescopes
D. Radio telescopes
Ans: B

177. What is the largest single-aperture radio telescope?

A. James Clerk Maxwell telescope
B. Arecibo observatory
C. South pole telescope
Ans: B

178. Who has discovered an Earth HD 21749b using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite?
A. ISRO
B. NASA
C. SpaceX
D. JAXA
Ans: B

179. The first space shuttle was launched in

A. 1971
 B. 1991
C. 1961
D. 1981
Ans: D

180. A refracting telescope uses _______ to focus light.

A. Lenses
B. Mirrors
C. Lasers
D. Water
Ans: A

181. What type of telescope is the Hubble?

A. Radio
B. Refracting
C. Reflecting
D. Catadioptric system
Ans: C

182. Which of the following Israeli lunar missions crashed on the Moon?
A. LADEE
B. Beresheet
C. Juno-1A
D. Ofek-11
Ans: B

183. Name the Spacecraft, which is used by NASA to find “Ligeia Mare”, the second largest
known body of liquid on Saturn’s moon Titan.
A. Voskhod
B. Cassini
C. Space Shuttle
D. Vostok
Ans: B

184. The following is not NASA space shuttle

A. Discovery
B. Endeavour
C. Challenger
D. Fortuner
Ans: D

185. Who was the first scientist to detect radio waves coming from the Milky Way?
A. Alexander Graham Bell
B. Percival Lowell
C. Karl Guthe Jansky
Ans: C

186. Most of the communication satellites are stationed to the West of their service areas in order
to reduce their ………..
A. Eclipse period
B. Loss of power
C. Battery power provision
D. Mass of station-keeping fuel
Ans: C

187. What does an eyepiece lens do?

A. An eyepiece lens measures the real image.
B. An eyepiece modifies the color of the image.
C. An eyepiece lens magnifies the real image.
Ans: A

188. Differences in frequency of the signals give information about the radio source. Frequency
refers to
A. When the radio waves first started
B. Where the radio waves come from
C. How often the radio waves vibrate
Ans: C

189. How many crew members were on each Skylab mission?

A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
Ans: B

190. What is the magnification of a telescope?

A. How much light it can gather
B. How much larger it can make objects appear
 C. How much energy it generates
D. How long it takes to focus
E. The size of the aperture
Ans: B

191. Which of these can only be seen with a radio telescope?

A. Cool hydrogen clouds
B. Asteroids
C. Globular star clusters
Ans: A

192. Which of the following robotic space probe launched to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros
from close orbit?
A. Cassini-Huygens
B. Galileo
C. NEAR Shoemaker
D. Suisei (Planet-A)
Ans: C

193. The first sounding rocket was launched from

A. Thumba equatorial rocket launching station
B. Satish Dhawan space centre
C. Guiana space centre
D. None of above
Ans: A

194. What type of satellite TV service uses compressed data transmission to beam signals directly
to every home?
A. Direct broadcast satellite
B. Mobile satellite service
C. Broadcasting satellite service
D. Fixed satellite service
Ans: A

195. The first flight of the space shuttle program by nasa was launched in
A. 1979
B. 1980
C. 1981
D. 1982
Ans: C

196. Which of the following is a telescope that is not based on visible light rays?
A. Radio telescope
B. Reflecting
C. Refracting
D. Catadioptric system
Ans: A

197. The second largest radio telescope in the world (located in Puerto Rico).
A. Arecibo Observatory
B. ALMA
C. SOFIA
D. Keck 1 and 2
Ans: A

198. Name the woman astronaut who has set the record for the longest single spaceflight?
A. Christina Koch
B. Peggy Whitson
C. Gagandeep Kang
D. Jessica Meir
Ans: A

199. To complete one revolution around the Earth, the communication satellites take
A. 24 hours
B. 36 hours
C. 48 hours
D. 72 hours
Ans: A

200. Which of these is NOT a component of a radio telescope?

A. Antenna
B. Amplifier
C. Eye piece
Ans: C

201. Which observatory, located in Chile, is made of 66, 12m radio telescopes that come
together to form one giant telescope?
A. Arecibo Observatory
 B. ALMA
C. SOFIA
D. Keck 1 and 2
Ans: B

202. Sri Lanka has launched its first satellite. What is it called?
A. Raavana 1
B. Colombo X
C. Kataragama
D. Vibhishana
Ans: A

203. …………. is a loss of power of a satellite downlink signal due to earth’s atmosphere.
A. Atmospheric loss
B. Path loss
C. Radiation loss
D. RFI
Ans: B

204. …………… is considered as the unsolved problem in the satellite system.

A. Coverage
B. Cost
C. Access
D. Privacy
Ans: D

205. As the height of a satellite orbit gets lower, the speed of the satellite ……………
A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains the same
D. None of the above
Ans: A

206. The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, provides?

A. Students in the United States with free access
B. The Faulkes Telescope Project
C. A high-powered robotic telescope in Jamaica
D. A high-powered robotic telescope in Tasmania
E. On-site use of two high-powered telescopes
 F. Scientific investigations
Ans: B

207. Which of the following are associated with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope?
A. A launch location
B. Kitt peak national observatory
C. A heliostat
D. A distinctive diagonal shaft that continues underground
Ans: C

208. The angle subtended by earth at the geostationary communication satellite is ………..
A. 17.34°
B. 51.4°
C. 120°
D. 60°
Ans: A

209. Of the four INSAT-I satellites planned by India so far, only …………… has proved to be
successful.
A. INSAT-IA
B. INSAT-IB
C. INSAT-IC
D. INSAT-ID
Ans: B

210. For personal computing needs, the Skylab crews were equipped with _____________.
A. Hewlett Packard hp35 calculators
B. Trs-80 computers
C. Apple II computers
D. Ti-83 calculators
Ans: A

211. Name the first satellite which was launched specifically for the purpose of x-ray astronomy?
A. Uhuru
B. Hinode
C. Clementine
D. Wmap
Ans: A
212. As compared to the 17.34° antenna, the total increase in the signal relayed by the 4.5°
antenna of INTELSAT-IV is ……….
A. 14.85
B. 220
C. 78
D. 3.85
Ans: B

213. The first US person launched into space

A. Alan Shepard
B. Neil Armstrong
C. John Glenn
D. None of the above
Ans: A

214. Find a telescope that has no dome. What's it called?

A. DSO-14
B. Prompt4
C. GreenBank-20
D. Yerkes-41
Ans: C

215. Telescope domes are closed when the weather is bad.

A. True
B. False
Ans: A

216. Telescope domes are open when the sun altitude (sun alt) is positive.
A. True
B. False
Ans: B

217. True or False: When a telescope is tracking, the right ascension and declination (Ra/Dec)
are constant. They don't change.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A
218. Power received from the Sun per m2 surface area of a geosynchronous satellite in
nearly…………. watt.
A. 100
B. 500
C. 2000
D. 1000
Ans: D

219. Name NASA’s mars exploration rover mission?

A. Opportunity rover
B. Spirit rover
C. Sojourner rover
D. Curiosity rover
Ans: B

220. True or False: The Hubble Space Telescope currently uses the Wide Field Planetary
Camera (PC-2) with its F492M filter among others for green astronomy.
A. True
B. False
Ans: B

221. True or False, Optical telescopes use domes as a form of shelter.

A. True
B. False
Ans: A

222. Initiators are used in cryogenic rocket engines.

A. Pyrotechnic
B. Centrifugal
C. Pyrotechnic & centrifugal
D. None of the mentioned
Ans: A

223. What was the last Apollo mission that landed on the moon?
A. Apollo 13
B. Apollo 15
C. Apollo 17
D. Apollo 19
Ans: C
224. True or False, There is a 101-cm telescope at Bisei Astronomical Observatory.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A

225. What kind of information does a GPS satellite transmit to the GPS receiver?
A. The time the message was sent
B. All of these
C. The location of the GPS satellite
D. The orbital information for all the other GPS satellites in the fleet
Ans: B

226. Repeaters inside communication satellites are known as ………

A. Trancievers
B. Transponders
C. Transducers
D. TWT
Ans: B

227. When is the International Day of Human Space Flight observed every year?
A. 11 April
B. 12 April
C. 13 April
D. 14 April
Ans: B

228. For which purpose SCATSAT-1 satellite was launched on 1 September, 2016?
A. To provide weather forecasting
B. Cyclone prediction
C. Tracking services to India
D. All of the above
Ans: D

229. What was the problem with the Apollo 13 flight?

A. Malfunction with oxygen
B. No problems
C. Crew did not get along
D. Door came open
Ans: A

230. First woman in space

A. Valentina Tereshkova
B. Svetlana Savitskaya
C. Yelena Serova
D. Sally Ride
Ans: A

231. NASA’s laser retroreflector arrays were carried to the Moon aboard which mission?
A. Chandrayaan-2
B. TESS
C. Gaganyaan
D. JUNO
Ans: A

232. Which of the following is India's first lunar probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organization?
A. Mangalyaan Program
B. Chandrayaan Program
C. Both A and B
D. Discovery program
Ans: B

233. How many people died in Apollo 1?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5
Ans: C

234. Which mission was the first to see the dark side of the moon?
A. Apollo 7
B. Apollo 8
C. Apollo 9
D. Apollo 10
Ans: B

235. Fuels used in Indian indigenous cryogenic Engines are

 A. Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen
B. Aviation fuel
C. Hydrazine and liquid hydrogen
D. None of above
Ans: A

236. Interstellar Technologies launched rocket Momo-3. It is the first private rocket of……..
A. South Korea
B. China
C. Japan
D. Vietnam
Ans: C

237. How many Apollo missions were there?

A. 17
B. 18
C. 19
D. 11
Ans: A

238. ‘Yutu-2′ is the lunar rover of……

A. India
B. China
C. Russia
D. US
Ans: B

239. What is the name of India's Multi Wavelength Space Observatory?

A. Astrosat
B. Cartosat-2
C. RISAT-1
D. None of these
Ans: A

240. The first satellite of United States

A. Explorer 1
B. Viking 1
C. Voyager 1
D. Mariner 1
Ans: A

241. Cryogenic fuels are stored under_______temperatures.

A. High
B. Low
C. Medium
D. None of the mentioned
Ans: B

242. Which was the first manned mission to leave earth's orbit?
A. Apollo 6
B. Apollo 7
C. Apollo 11
D. Apollo 13
Ans: B

243. In communication satellites, the up-link normally operates at a higher frequency than the
down-link because it
A. Gives a narrow beam shining into space
B. Results in lesser signal attenuation
C. Gives better beam-shaping
D. Is easier to polarize a high frequency beam
Ans: A

244. For global communication, the number of satellites needed is

A. 1
B. 3
C. 10
D. 5
Ans: B

245. Space probes launched in 1977 on interstellar mission to explore the outer planets and
beyond
A. Voyager 1 & 2
B. Spirit & Opportunity
C. Sputnik & Pioneer 10
D. Viking & Magellan
Ans: A
246. Various observatories occur at different altitudes and geographic locations due to what
effect?
A. The presence of oceans on the Earth
B. Locally available carving tools
C. Light pollution
D. Most astronomical objects are observed at night
E. Currently dormant volcanoes seldom erupt
F. Human habitation increases near an astronomical observatory
Ans: A, D, E and F

247. In Apollo 13 the lunar module was called?

A. Orion
B. Odyssey
C. Orbit
D. Little joe
Ans: B

248. Satellite which relay computer data along with television and radio broadcasts is called
A. Military satellite
B. Weather satellite
C. Communication satellite
D. Remote sensing satellite
Ans: C

249. In satellite communication, frequency modulation is used because satellite channel has
A. Small bandwidth and negligible noise
B. Large bandwidth and severe noise
C. Maximum bandwidth and minimum noise
D. High modulation index
Ans: B

250. The Saturn V rocket has how many stages?

A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7
Ans: B

251. Which of the following are green observatories in orbit around the Earth?
 A. Chandra X-ray Big Bear
B. TRACE
C. Kodaikanal
D. the Hubble
E. Lomnickýštít
F. McMath-Pierce
G. SOFIA
H. All of the above
Ans: All of the above

252. Which of the following are associated with the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory?
A. Under ice
B. The amundsen-scott south pole station
C. Digital optical modules
D. The counting house is on the surface above the array
E. The baryon neutrino
F. The electron neutrino
Ans: D and E

253. Was Apollo 13 successful?

A. No. It didn't land on the moon.
B. Yes, it safely returned to earth.
C. Yes, they learnt a lot about space
D. Yes, they tested other things.
Ans: A

254. VSAT was made available in ……..

A. 1979
B. 1981
C. 1983
D. 1977
Ans: A

255. Which of these shapes would be aerodynamic?

A. Square
B. Cone
Ans: B

256. ……………. collects very weak signals from a broadcast satellite

 A. Helical antenna
B. Satellite dish
C. LNA
D. TWT
Ans: B

257. What was 300th launch of arianespace's rocket?

A. Ariane 2
B. Ariane 3
C. Ariane 4
D. Ariane 5
Ans: D

258. Which of the following are observatories on Earth?

A. Chandra X-ray Observatory
B. Giza Pyramids
C. TRACE
D. Tuorla Observatory
E. The Hubble
F. Aldershot Observatory
G. Stonehenge
H. SOFIA
Ans: C, E and H

259. What year did Viking 1 and 2 collect samples from Mars?
A. 1959
B. 1976
C. 2001
D. 2011
Ans: B

260. What is the least powerful super heavy launcher?

A. Falcon heavy
B. Space shuttle
C. N-1
D. Energia
Ans: D
261. The Sun blots out the transmission of a geosynchronous satellite twice a year when satellite
passes directly in front of it. This outage lasts for about
A. 10 minutes on 5 consecutive days
B. 5 minutes on 10 consecutive days
C. 30 minutes for 5 consecutive days
D. One hour for 5 consecutive days
Ans: A

262. The rocket moves forward when __________ are expelled from the rear of the rocket.
A. Gases
B. Waters
C. Forces of gravity
D. Fuels
Ans: A

263. What was the name of the first successful moon probe?
A. Apollo 13
B. Columbia
C. Atlantis
D. Luna 1
Ans: D

264. What is the bfr?

A. Big falcon rocket
B. Nasa's latest rocket
C. A rocket used to fly to the moon
D. Best flying rocket
Ans: A

265. Why use an interferometer?

A. Its two widely-spaced mirrors act like one giant telescope with increased collecting area.
B. Its two widely-spaced mirrors act like one giant telescope with increased resolving power.
C. By putting one mirror above the other you can make the instrument much smaller.
D. It can detect light at wavelengths not available to single telescopes.
Ans: B

266. A long term platform which provide medium for research in space is called
A. Space craft
B. Space station
 C. Space shuttle
D. Space vehicle
Ans: B

267. Which of the following NASA's space probes was designed to study the composition of the
interior of the comet tempel 1?
A. Messenger
B. Hayabusa
C. Rosetta
D. Deep impact
Ans: D

268. Which of the following are solar observatory satellites?

A. Einstein Observatory
B. OSO 7
C. Hinode
D. High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1
E. Koronas-Foton
F. STEREO
Ans: A, B and D

269. The point on the rocket where all mass is concentrated

A. Centre of gravity
B. Balance point
C. Concentration
D. Centre of pressure
Ans: A

270. Which of the following launched vehicles was used for the project Apollo?
A. Electron (rocket lab)
B. Saturn launch vehicle
C. Falcon heavy launch
D. Rocket lab test launch
Ans: B

271. How many GPS satellites were there when the system was originally set up?
A. 36
B. 10
C. 24
 D. 50
Ans: C

272. What is the number of satellites present in the Iridium system?

A. 72
B. 51
C. 66
D. 32
Ans: C

273. In cryogenic rocket engines use oxidizer as fuel

A. True
B. False
Ans: A

274. While keeping the down-link frequency constant, the diameter of a satellite antenna is
reduced by half. To offer the same EIRP over the increased coverage area, the RF output
power has to be increases by a factor of ………..
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 16
Ans: B

275. What is an orbital rocket?

A. A rocket that reaches orbit
B. A rocket that sends a payload to orbit
C. A rocket that is capable of sending a payload to orbit
D. All of the above
Ans: D

276. India's first three-axis stabilized geostationary communication satellite is Space

communication links are being increasingly moved into Ka-band (200-30 GHz) because it
A. Offers a much wider available bandwidth
B. Does not suffer from atmospheric attenuation
C. Permits the use of smaller antenna
D. Does not suffer from rain attenuation
Ans: A
277. What's this rocket?

A. Long march 3a
B. Long march 2c
C. Long march 4a
D. Long march 11
Ans: B

278. Rays which are invisible do not includes

A. X-rays
B. Gamma rays
C. Ultraviolet rays
D. Blue rays
Ans: D

279. Do astronomers use ground-based X-ray telescopes?

A. Yes, because they can penetrate gas clouds.
B. No, because no astronomical objects emit x rays.
C. No, because x-rays cannot get through the Earth's atmosphere.
D. No, because astronomers have not yet devised detectors for x-rays.
Ans: C

280. The _________________ crew staged what has been reported as a ``mutiny¨.
A. Skylab 4
B. Skylab 3
C. Skylab 2
D. Skylab 1
Ans: A

281. Which of the following is astronomical observatory phenomena associated with the Sun?
A. Pyranometer
B. Actinometer
C. Radiation observatory, university of bergen, bergen, norway
 D. Neutron irradiation
E. The world radiation reference scale (wrr)
F. Meteor orbits
G. Pyrheliometer
Ans: A, D and F

282. The most powerful group of rockets that send satellites into space
A. Launch vehicle
B. Thrusters
C. Missiles
D. Sounding rocket
Ans: A

283. The world’s largest ground-based telescope developed by pune based IT firm Thought
Works which will become operational in Hawaii in the mid-2020.
A. Gran Telescopio Canarias
B. South African Large Telescope (SALT)
C. Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT)
D. Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)
Ans: C

284. A point where light rays pass and converge is called its
A. Reflect point
B. Refract point
C. Focal point
D. Objective lenses
Ans: C

285. Rays with longest wavelengths are the

A. X-rays
B. Radio waves
C. Ultraviolet rays
D. Blue rays
Ans: B

286. A telescope which can detect black holes in space is the

A. Chandra x-ray Observatory
B. Hubble Space
C. Keck Telescope
 D. Radio Telescope
Ans: A

287. The falcon heavy is currently the only _________ operating rocket as of 2019
A. Super heavy
B. Powerful
C. Small
D. Super powerful
Ans: A

288. What is the direction of the lift force the fins put on the rocket?
A. Upward
B. Downward
C. Backward
D. Sideways
Ans: D

289. What is an oxidizer?

A. Chemical used to keep rust off of a rocket
B. A machine that cleans a rocket.
C. A type of chemical which a fuel requires to burn.
D. The name of the latest NASA test rocket.
Ans: C

290. Which of the following is not a reason for redistributing TV signals through satellites rather
than sky waves or space waves?
A. High frequency signal
B. Long distance communication
C. Economically feasible
D. Power requirements
Ans: D

291. Which of the following unmanned spacecraft was sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter
and its moon?
A. Galileo
B. Suisei (planet-a)
C. Cassini-huygens
D. Near shoemaker
Ans: A
292. True or False: The Mauna Kea Observatories are used for scientific research across the
electromagnetic spectrum from visible light to radio, and comprise the largest such facility
in the world.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A

293. Sputnik 1 was launched in_____ by _____

A. 2005/UNITED STATES
B. 2005/RUSSIA
C. 1957/UNITED STATES
D. 1957/RUSSIA
Ans: D

294. For satellite communication, standard Earth stations have antenna diameters in the range of
………….. metre.
A. 27.5 to 30
B. 10 to 15
C. 30 to 50
D. 5 to 10
Ans: A

295. The owner of Asia Sat2 is

A. Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (ASTC)
B. Japan Satellite System (JSAT)
C. China Great Wall Industry Corporation
D. Singapore Satellite Commision
Ans: C

296. Which company served as the prime contractor on the Saturn V's first stage, the s-ic?
A. Boeing
B. North American
C. Douglas
D. Lockheed
Ans: A

297. AsiaSat I cover how many countries in Asia?

A. 38
 B. 10
C. 28
D. 15
Ans: A

298. Diameter of each dish of separate aerial telescope is

A. 20m
B. 25m
C. 30m
D. 35m
Ans: B

299. True or False: A theoretical observatory decides which systems, for example, among virtual
stellar systems, should be recognizable, and which not.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A

300. The first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, orbited...

A. The moon.
B. For 57 days.
C. With a dog aboard.
D. The atmosphere.
Ans: B

301. How many manned Skylab missions were flown?

A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
Ans: C

302. Who owns Soyuz and Proton?

A. Roscosmos
B. Russia (duh)
C. Proton inc.
D. Airboy rockets
Ans: A
303. Which type of airflow is desired for a rocket to achieve the most efficient flight
performance?
A. Ballast
B. Turbulent airflow
C. Gravity
D. Laminar airflow
Ans: D

304. …………… is considered as the unsolved problem in satellite system.

A. Coverage
B. Cost
C. Access
D. Privacy
Ans: D

305. What was damaged during launch and deployment of space lab?
A. Micrometeoroid shield/sunshade
B. One solar panel was torn loose
C. Telescope mount
D. Airlock
Ans: A and B

306. What kind of battery was used by older satellites?

A. Lithium
B. Leclanche
C. Hydrogen
D. Magnesium
Ans: A

307. True or False, The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a 12-meter sphere filled with heavy
water surrounded by light detectors located 2 km above the ground in Sudbury, Ontario,
Canada.
A. True
B. False
Ans: B

308. Who is the former ISRO chairman who initiated the development of the Geostationary
Launch Vehicle (GSLV) and the development of cryogenic technology in 1991?
A. Madhavan Nair
 B. KK Radhakrishnan
C. UR Rao
D. Shailesh Nayak
Ans: C

309. Using ___________, scientists can use a few smaller telescopes to take images with the
same resolution as a much larger telescope.
A. Satellite telescopes
B. Charge-coupled devices (CCDs)
C. Interferometry
D. Adaptive optics
Ans: C

310. To double the resolving power of a telescope, you must _________.

A. Increase the diameter by a factor of two
B. Increase the collecting area by a factor of two
C. Decrease the diameter by half
D. Decrease the collecting area by half
Ans: A

311. A warm dust cloud in which stars are forming would be best observed with a(n) _________
telescope.
A. Radio
B. Gamma-Ray
C. Infrared
D. Optical (visible light)
Ans: C

312. A galaxy with almost no starlight but plenty of cool clouds of hydrogen gas would be best
observed with a(n) _________ telescope.
A. X-ray
B. Radio
C. Infrared
D. Optical (visible light)
Ans: B

313. The Saturn V's first stage was powered by five rocket dyne f-1 engines. During the Saturn
V's first launch, in November, 1967, how much thrust did each f-1 engine produce?
A. 2.5 Million Pounds (11,120 Kilonewtons)
 B. 1 Million Pounds (4,448 Kilonewtons)
C. 1.5 Million Pounds (6,673 Kilonewtons)
D. 2 Million Pounds (8,896 Kilonewtons)
Ans: C

314. Was the design used for Skylab the wet workshop or dry workshop version?
A. Wet workshop
B. Dry workshop
Ans: B

315. Which of the following comes under methods of multiple access techniques?
A. FDMA & TDMA
B. SCPC & CDMA
C. CDMA & GSM
D. None of these
Ans: A

316. The resolving power of a telescope is affected by the property of light called
A. Refraction.
B. Diffraction.
C. Reflection.
D. Seeing.
E. Attenuation.
Ans: B

317. True or False, The Sphinx Observatory is on the Giza plateau.

A. True
B. False
Ans: B

318. Asia Sat I covers how many countries in Asia?

A. 38
B. 10
C. 28
D. 15
Ans: A

319. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite orbits around the earth at a height approximately
_________.
 A. 3,000 miles to 6,000 miles
B. 4,000 miles to 8,000 miles
C. 6,000 miles to 12,000 miles
D. 8,000 miles to 10,000 miles
Ans: C

320. A pencil inside a water glass appears to be bent because of

A. Reflection of light.
B. Refraction of light.
C. Diffraction of light.
D. None of the above.
Ans: B

321. Name the first reusable spacecraft.

A. Atlantis
B. Apollo
C. Discovery
D. Columbia
Ans: D

322. Which company was the primary contractor on the Saturn V's second stage, the s-ii?
A. Mcdonnell
B. North American
C. Lockheed
D. Grumman
Ans: B

323. What was the purpose of the first Skylab mission, sl1?
A. Manned mission to set up the space station
B. Unmanned mission that put the space station into orbit
C. Unmanned mission to test the rocket
D. Manned mission to prepare a place in orbit
Ans: B

324. What height must a satellite is placed above the surface of the earth in order for its rotation
to be equal to earth’s rotation?
A. 26,426.4 miles
B. 27,426.4 miles
C. 23,426.4 miles
 D. 22,426.4 miles
Ans: D

325. Why is the cosmic microwave background (CMB) so cold if the early universe was so hot?
A. Enough time has passed for matter in the universe to release enough heat to cool down.
B. The CMB constantly interacts with atoms, which effectively cool down the photons.
C. The expansion of the universe has red shifted those photons to an effectively cooler
temperature.
D. Misleading; The Big Bang was initially hot but the CMB was released from cold material
much later on.
Ans: A

326. What is this rocket?

A. Zhuque 2
B. Zhuque 1
C. Long march
D. A rocket
Ans: B

327. True or False, The first gamma-ray telescope was carried into orbit aboard OSO 3.
A. True
B. False
Ans: B

328. What was the first manned mission of NASA?

A. Pqs-5
B. Apollo-Soyuz
C. Sts-1
D. Bell x-1
Ans: C
329. ___________ is a satellite that rotates around the earth in a low-altitude elliptical or
circular pattern.
A. Geosynchronous satellite
B. Nonsynchronous satellite
C. Prograde satellite
D. Retrograde satellite
Ans: B

330. A force or substance that drives something else forward.

A. Thrust
B. Propellant
C. Rocket
D. Missile
Ans: B

331. What is meant by OMT?

A. Orthogonal mode tube
B. Orthogonal modulation tube
C. Orthogonal mode transducer
D. None of these
Ans: C

332. The first satellite to receive and transmit simultaneously

A. Intelsat I
B. Agila I
C. Syncorn I
D. Telstar I
Ans: D

333. Which of the following is the first commercial satellite?

A. Early Bird
B. Telstar
C. Explorer
D. Courier
Ans: B

334. What is the disadvantage of using a single, large lens in a telescope?

A. Large lenses are expensive to fabricate.
 B. A lens has to be supported only at its edges, so the lens can sag in the middle.
C. Different colors of white light on passing through a lens focus at different points and
result in a blurred image.
D. Some lens materials completely absorb short wavelengths.
E. All of the above.
Ans: E

335. The ability of a telescope to show two very close objects separately is called its ________.
A. Light gathering power
B. Resolving power
C. Magnification
D. None of the above
Ans: B

336. Carl has a 5-inch refracting telescope and Jim has a 3-inch reflecting telescope. Whose
telescope has a higher light-gathering power?
A. Carl's, because lenses gather more light.
B. Jim's, because mirrors gather more light.
C. Carl's, because the larger the diameter, the more light to be collected.
D. Jim's, because the smaller the diameter, the more light to be collected.
Ans: C

337. Tom has a 4-inch refracting telescope and Steve has a 3-inch reflecting telescope. Whose
telescope has a higher resolving power?
A. Tom's, because lenses are more efficient in showing the objects separately.
B. Steve's, because mirrors are more efficient in showing the objects separately.
C. Tom's, because the larger the diameter, the better the resolution.
D. Steve's, because the smaller the diameter, the better the resolution.
Ans: C

338. Who were the first people to make rockets?

A. Chinese
B. Japanese
C. Nazis
D. Koreans
Ans: A

339. A satellite stays in orbit because the following two factors are balanced
A. Satellite weight and speed
 B. Gravitational pull and inertia
C. Centripetal force and speed
D. Satellite weight and the pull of the moon and sun
Ans: B

340. Which is the series of satellites used by India for astronomical observation?
A. Agni
B. Astrosat
C. INSAT
D. Vijay
Ans: B

341. Name the first spacecraft to visit the solar system?

A. Pioneer 10 and pioneer 11
B. Ranger 1 and ranger 2
C. Surveyor 6 and surveyor 7
D. Viking 1 and Viking 2
Ans: A

342. Television transmission is an example of which type of transmission?

A. Simplex
B. Half Duplex
C. Full Duplex
D. None of the above
Ans: A

343. An interstellar gas is emitting 10-centimeter wavelength radiation and a nearby star is
emitting 10-micrometer wavelength radiation. Which of these can you observe through an
Earth-based telescope?
A. The interstellar gas
B. The star
C. Both of them
D. Neither of them
Ans: A

344. X-rays are blocked by ________ and _________ present in the Earth's atmosphere.
A. Water molecules; carbon dioxide
B. Ozone; oxygen
C. Nitrogen; helium
 D. Electric charges; clouds
Ans: B

345. What are the limitations of FDMA-satellite access?

A. If the traffic in the downlink is much heavier than that in the uplink, then FDMA is
relatively inefficient.
B. Compared with TDMA, FDMA has less flexibility in reassigning channels.
C. Carrier frequency assignments are hardware controlled
D. All of the above
Ans: D

346. What is a rocket that doesn't separate to get to Orbit?

A. Single stage to orbit
B. Single orbiter
C. Spaceship
D. Single staged orbiter
Ans: A

347. Which is the most efficient means of recording light?

A. Photographic films
B. Photomultiplier tubes
C. Charge-coupled device (CCD)
D. The human eye
Ans: C

348. Which space telescope is observing X-rays?

A. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
B. The Chandra Observatory
C. The Spitzer Space Telescope
D. The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
Ans: B

349. Name the NASA’s first exploration mission beyond Earth?

A. Pioneer 2
B. Pioneer 3
C. Pioneer 4
D. Pioneer p-1
Ans: C
350. True or False, The Norikura Solar Observatory uses its own designations for solar active
regions rather than those of other observatories or NOAA.
A. True
B. False
Ans: B

351. The Saturn V's second stage was powered by five rocket dyne j-2 engines. Which of the
following fuels was used to propel the j-2?
A. Alcohol-Kerosene Mix
B. Refined Kerosene (Rp-1)
C. Liquid Hydrogen
D. Gasoline-Kerosene Mix (Jp-4)
Ans: C

352. Name of the Moon mission 2024, which was unveiled by National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
A. Kosmos
B. Artemis
C. Surveyor
D. Explorer
Ans: B

353. Which of the following telescopes is most suitable for observing cool gas clouds?
A. X-ray telescope.
B. Radio telescope.
C. Visible light telescope.
D. All of the above.
E. Cool gas clouds cannot be observed by telescopes.
Ans: B

354. ______ is the most important quality of an astronomical telescope.

A. Magnification
B. Resolving power
C. Ability to see at night
D. Rigidity
Ans: B

355. Point on the satellite orbits closest to the earth.

A. Apogee
 B. Perigee
C. Prograde
D. Zenith
Ans: B

356. How many space missions has ISRO launched in 2019?

A. 28
B. 32
C. 38
D. 43
Ans: B

357. Which of the following statements best describes the two principle advantages of telescopes
over eyes?
A. Telescopes can collect far more light with far better angular resolution.
B. Telescopes collect more light and are unaffected by twinkling.
C. Telescopes can collect far more light with far greater magnification.
D. Telescopes have much more magnification and better angular resolution.
Ans: A

358. Which of the following statements about X rays and radio waves is NOT true?
A. X rays and radio waves are both forms of light or electromagnetic radiation.
B. X rays have higher frequency than radio waves.
C. X rays have shorter wavelengths than radio waves.
D. X rays travel through space faster than radio waves.
Ans: D

359. When NASA had launched its first mission to the sun?
A. 2016
B. 2017
C. 2018
D. None of the above
Ans: C

360. The minimum velocity required for a satellite to remain in its orbit is ______.
A. 8 km/s
B. 8 km/h
C. 800 km/h
D. 800 m/s
Ans: A

361. Which of the following space missions launched in a cooperative effort among the soviet
union and Austria, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, the German democratic republic, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and the federal republic of Germany?
A. Vega program
B. Venera mission
C. Venus express
D. Magellan spacecraft
Ans: A

362. How does the light-collecting area of an 8-meter telescope compare to that of a 2-meter
telescope?
A. The answer cannot be determined from the information given in the question.
B. The 8-meter telescope has 8 times the light-collecting area of the 2-meter telescope.
C. The 8-meter telescope has 16 times the light-collecting area of the 2-meter telescope.
D. The 8-meter telescope has 4 times the light-collecting area of the 2-meter telescope.
Ans: C

363. _____ was the first satellite launched by India using SLV [Satellite Launching Vehicle].
A. Agni
B. EDUSAT
C. Rohini
D. INSAT II
Ans: C

364. Whole world can be covered with

A. 2 geo-stationary satellites
B. 3 geo-stationary satellites
C. 4 geo-stationary satellites
D. 5 geo-stationary satellites
Ans: B

365. The optical principles of the surveying telescope are based on the fact that all parallel rays of
light reaching a convex lens are bent when they leave it in such a manner that they intersect
at a common point, called the focus.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A
366. Which was the first satellite launched by ISRO?
A. Kalpana-1
B. Bhaskara
C. Aryabhata
D. None of these
Ans: A

367. If a 3 meter diameter telescope is doubled in size, then its new light collecting power would
A. Not change.
B. Double.
C. Increase by a factor of four.
D. Reduce by half.
Ans: C

368. The curiosity rover is on a planet in our solar system. It is taking pictures and collecting
rock samples. What planet is it currently located on?
A. Earth
B. Venus
C. Mars
D. Mercury
Ans: C

369. Considered as the unsolved problem in satellite system

A. Coverage
B. Cost
C. Access
D. Privacy
Ans: D

370. Name a space weapon which is designed to destroy or incapacitate satellites for strategic
military purposes?
A. IRS
B. HAMSAT
C. ASAT
D. SARAL
Ans: C

371. At what height do booster rockets get detached from the space-shuttle?
 A. 45 km
B. 100 km
C. 300 km
D. 1000 km
Ans: A

372. The line of sight is also called _____

A. Line of telescope
B. Line of centre of axis
C. Line of collimation
D. Line of objective
Ans: C

373. ______ system achieves and maintains the required attitudes, including main function
maintaining accurate satellite position throughout the lifespan of the system.
A. Automatic control system
B. Manual control system
C. Attitude control system
D. None of these
Ans: C

374. Which of the following refers to the equipment used to provide the service for which the
satellite has been launched?
A. Payload
B. Transponder
C. Propellent
D. None of these
Ans: A

375. A rocket works on the principle of ______.

A. Newton's first law of motion
B. Newton's second law of motion
C. Newton's third law of motion
D. First law of thermodynamics
Ans: C

376. The establishment of line of sight, therefore, involves the following two essential conditions,
the real image must be formed in front of the eyepiece, and the plane of the image must
coincide with that of the cross hairs.
 A. True
B. False
Ans: A

377. The operation of forming or bringing the clear image of the object in the plane of cross
hairs is known as ______
A. Centering
B. Adjusting
C. Parallax correcting
D. Focusing
Ans: D

378. How do astronomers calculate a telescope's light collecting area (A)? (Where r = radius of
the telescopes mirror or lens, and B is "pi" or 3.14159)
A. A = 2Br
B. A = Br2
C. A = 4Br2
D. A = 4/3 Br3
Ans: B

379. How many stages are there in GSLV?

A. 2
B. 5
C. 3
D. None of these
Ans: C

380. What is the goal of the surveyor program of NASA?

A. To demonstrate the proper landing on the mars.
B. To demonstrate the soft landings on the moon.
C. To check other missions of Apollo.
D. To determine the radiations in space.
Ans: B

381. Collects very weak signal from broadcast satellite

A. Helical antenna
B. Satellite dish
C. LNA
D. TWT
Ans: B

382. India's first pico-satellite?

A. GSAT-4
B. INSAT
C. StudSat
D. ANUSAT
Ans. C

383. Which of the following has been used as rocket fuel? Select all that apply
A. Kerosene
B. Charcoal
C. Gunpowder
D. Liquid oxygen
Ans: A, C and D

384. The Saturn V's second and third stages used small ullage motors in addition to the j-2
engines. For what purpose were the ullage motors used?
A. To Provide Minor Course Corrections
B. To Settle Propellants in Their Holding Tanks
C. To Add Extra Speed to the Rocket
D. To disengage the rocket's self-destruct systems
Ans: B

385. How is DGPS different from normal GPS?

A. It uses two receivers, one at a known location and one at an unknown location
B. It is less accurate than GPS
C. It is only available to professionals
D. All of these
Ans: A

386. What kind of battery panels are used in some advanced satellites?
A. Germanium based panels
B. Silicon based panel
C. Gallium Phosphate solar panel array
D. Gallium Arsenide solar panel array
Ans: D
387. For most optical devices, “focused” means the light rays from a point source are converged
to a/an image.
A. Circle
B. Oval
C. Donut
D. Blurry
E. Point
Ans: E

388. Which satellite is known as Earth observation satellite that was launched on 5 May, 2005?
A. HAMSAT
B. CARTOSAT-1
C. INSAT-4A
D. RESOURCESAT-1
Ans. B

389. If your pupils have a diameter of about 5 mm, about how many times more light gathering
power does a telescope with a diameter of about 20 cm (8 inches) have than your pupils?
A. 4 times
B. 16 times
C. 40 times
D. 160 times
E. 1,600 times
Ans: E

390. Space-age spinoffs includes

A. Smoke detectors
B. Invisible braces
C. Medical laser
D. All of them
Ans: D

391. In FM, frequency of modulated wave varies with

A. Amplitude
B. Time
C. Wavelength
D. Energy
Ans: B
392. Geostationary satellite has period
A. Twice of Earth
B. Same as Earth
C. Half of Earth
D. Quarter of Earth
Ans: B

393. Field of view (FOV) is the angular diameter of the circular region seen through a telescope.
As magnification increases, field of view. Another meaning of field of view is just the region
seen through the telescope. Context as usual must decide the meaning meant.
A. Fluctuates
B. Stays the same
C. Increases
D. Decreases
E. Fluctuates wildly
Ans: D

394. On some telescopes, actuators on the mirror change its shape to match distortions in the
atmosphere. What is this technique called?
A. Actuary observing
B. Interferometry.
C. Refraction
D. Adaptive Optics
Ans: D

395. To make antenna more directional, either its size must be increased or
A. The number of its feed horns must be increased
B. The frequency of its transmission must be increased
C. Its effective isotropic radiated power (eirp) must be increased
D. Its footprint must be increased
Ans: B

396. Which is the latest PSLV launched by India?

A. PSLV C32
B. PSLV C37
C. PSLV C42
D. None Of These
Ans: C
397. Gravitational force of attraction between satellite and earth provides
A. Centripetal force
B. Centrifugal force
C. Resistive force
D. None of above
Ans: A

398. Velocity of geostationary satellite with respect to earth is

A. 10 ms-1
B. 15 ms-1
C. Zero
D. 1ms-1
Ans: C

399. India’s first domestic geostationary satellite 1NSAT-IA was launched on 10th April 1982
from
A. USSR
B. USA
C. UK
D. UP
Ans: B

400. When was PSLV launched for the first time?

A. 2008
B. 2016
C. 2003
D. None of these
Ans: B

401. What is the disadvantage of using a single large lens in a telescope?

A. Large lenses are expensive to fabricate.
B. A lens has to be supported only at its edges, so the lens can sag in the middle.
C. Different colors of white light on passing through a lens focus at different points and
result in a blurred image.
D. Some lens materials completely absorb short wavelengths.
E. All of these choices are correct.
Ans: E
402. Which private US company is successfully launching protype rockets that will go beyond
the moon to the planet Mars in 2030.
A. FEDEX
B. SPACE X
C. NASA
D. GEN X
Ans: B

403. The name of the rocket that the Apollo missions used?
A. Saturn 1
B. Saturn 5
C. Gemini 2
D. Gemini 3
Ans: B

404. How many stages are there in PSLV?

A. 4
B. 3
C. 2
D. None of these
Ans: D

405. How many manned Apollo missions were there?

A. 11
B. 12
C. 13
D. 14
Ans: B

406. In the Apollo configuration, how tall was the Saturn V?

A. 316 feet (96 meters)
B. 430 feet (131 meters)
C. 363 feet (111 meters)
D. 289 feet (88 meters)
Ans: C

407. What is the full form of ASLV?

A. Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle
B. Air Satellite Launch Vehicle
 C. Augmented Space Launch Vehicle
D. None of These
Ans: A

408. The satellite that is used as a relay to extend communication distance is called as
__________
A. Relay satellites
B. Communication satellites
C. Repeater satellites
D. Geosynchronous satellites
Ans: B

409. Who was the third astronaut in the Apollo 11 mission?

A. Collins
B. White
C. Grissom
D. Chaffee
Ans: A

410. The transmitter-receiver combination in the satellite is known as a _______

A. Relay
B. Repeater
C. Transponder
D. Duplexer
Ans: C

411. The downlink frequency is lower than the uplink frequency.

A. True
B. False
Ans: A

412. A typical rocket consumes fuel on amount of

A. 8000 kg s-1
B. 9000 kg s-1
C. 10000 kg s-1
D. 11000 kg s-1
Ans: C

413. What is the reason for carrying multiple transponders in a satellite?

 A. More number of operating channel
B. Better reception
C. More gain
D. Redundancy
Ans: A

414. Satellite launch sites are invariably located on Eastern seaboards to ensure that
A. Launch takes place eastward
B. Expenditure of propulsion fuel is reduced during plane changing
C. The satellite achieves circular orbit quickly
D. Spent rocket motor and other launcher debris falls into the sea
Ans: D

415. The first landing on the moon occurred?

A. In 1967
B. In 1969
C. In 1971
D. In 1975
Ans: B

416. The bandwidth of C- band satellite frequency bands in the U.S is ………
A. 500 GHz
B. 1000 GHz
C. 1000 MHz
D. 500 MHz
Ans: D

417. A dog sent in first flight to space was named

A. Laika
B. Jupiter
C. Lucky
D. Luna
Ans: A

418. The three forces that act upon a rocket in flight are?
A. Thrust, drag and airflow
B. Airflow, weight and thrust
C. Weight, thrust and lift
D. Weight, thrust and drag
Ans: D

419. In order to orbit a moon or a planet certain speed and direction is required which is called
A. Escape velocity
B. Orbital velocity
C. Suborbital velocity
D. Centripetal velocity
Ans: B

420. Name the Japanese unmanned spacecraft that probed Asteroid Ryugu and discovered a
small amount of minerals containing water on the surface of the asteroid?
A. Hiten
B. Hayabusa2
C. Akatsuki
D. Selene
Ans: B

421. Who caused the explosion on Apollo 13?

A. Fred Haise
B. Jack Swigert
C. Jim Lovell
Ans: B

422. The Indian national committee for space research (incospar) was found in which year?
A. 1969
B. 1966
C. 1962
D. None of these
Ans: C

423. Who was the backup crew for Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space?
A. Ravish Malhotra
B. Ravi Kumar
C. Ravish Sharma
D. Madhavan Nair
Ans: A

424. Flight of first spacecraft lasted for

A. 180 mins
 B. 108 mins
C. 80 mins
D. 8 mins
Ans: A

425. First successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by

A. Yuri Gagarian
B. Robert Goddard
C. Jules Verne
D. Konstantin Tsiolkovosky
Ans: B

426. IRNSS-1e is the fifth satellite in the Indian regional navigation satellite system (IRNSS),
which vehicle launched it?
A. PSLV-C31
B. PSLV-C30
C. PSLV-C21
D. GSLV 3
Ans: A

427. Binary system has……. base

A. 10
B. 11
C. 1
D. 2
Ans: D

428. Which type of fuel is used by GSLV in its operations?

A. Only Liquid Fuel
B. Liquid In First Stage And Solid In Second Stage
C. Solid In First Stage And Liquid In Second Stage
D. None Of These
Ans: C

429. Who is known as the 'father of modern rocketry'?

A. Charles fritts
B. Robbert hutchings goddard
C. George fritts
D. Malcolm loughead
Ans: B

430. Alan shepard was the first American in space. Which rocket got him there?
A. Titan
B. Redstone
C. Atlas
Ans: B

431. ISRO launched India’s second mission to the moon called ________.
A. Chandrayaan-1
B. Chandrayaan-2
C. Chandrayaan
D. None of these
Ans: B

432. How are the chemicals in a solid rocket combined before ignition?
A. They are stored in separate tall cylinders inside the rocket's body.
B. They are blended and packed into the rocket before it launches.
C. Hoppers combine the powders during flight.
Ans: B

433. Which of the following countries do not have cryogenic engine technique?
A. Russia
B. Japan
C. China
D. Canada
Ans: D

434. How many Earth-sized Exoplanets are discovered by NASA from outside the Solar System?
A. 18
B. 23
C. 8
D. 5
Ans: A

435. Name the giant asteroid which will fly past Earth on April 13, 2029.
A. 101955 Bennu
B. 4179 Toutatis
C. 2062 Aten
 D. 99942 Apophis
Ans: D

436. The altitude of a GOES weather satellite is:

A. 35 kilometers
B. 350 kilometers
C. 3,500 kilometers
D. 35,000 kilometers
Ans: D

437. What is the primary ingredient in the rocket fuel called rp-1?
A. Kerosene
B. Liquid oxygen
C. Liquid hydrogen
Ans: A

438. Cryogenic rocket engines are also called hybrid rocket engines.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A

439. What kind of battery is used by older satellites?

A. Lithium
B. Leclanche
C. Hydrogen
D. Magnesium
Ans: C

440. Pioneer and Voyager were sent to

A. Jupiter
B. Mars
C. Venus
D. Moon
Ans: A

441. In which country were rockets invented?

A. Egypt
B. China
C. Germany
Ans: B

442. The satellite in the figure is:

A. Apollo 11
B. Sputnik
C. Apollo 13
D. Columbia
Ans: B

443. What are the smaller rockets on the outside of the main rocket called?
A. Propellers
B. Exhaust pods
C. Boosters
D. Stabilizers
Ans: C

444. What was the maximum speed of the x-15?

A. 4,520 mph
B. 5,123 mph
C. 5,892 mph
Ans: A

445. How many pounds of thrust could the Saturn V generate?

A. 1 million pounds
B. 5.2 million pounds
C. 7.6 million pounds
Ans: C

446. A satellite signal transmitted from a satellite transponder to earth’s station is ……….
A. Uplink
B. Downlink
 C. Terrestrial
D. Earthbound
Ans: B

447. Solid-fuel rockets can sit idle for years before being launched.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A

448. What is meant by PSLV?

A. Polar Space Launch Vehicle
B. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
C. Polar small Launch Vehicle
D. None of these
Ans: B

449. Power received from the Sun per m 2 surface area of a geosynchronous satellite is
nearly…………. watt.
A. 100
B. 500
C. 2000
D. 1000
Ans: D

450. Which rocket is the tallest and heaviest ever used for actual space operations?
A. Titan I
B. Delta 0100
C. Saturn V
Ans: C

451. Space craft’s sent to probe outer solar system were

A. Pioneer 10
B. Pioneer 1
C. Pioneer 2
D. Pioneer 9
Ans: A

452. How do satellites help meteorologists?

A. By sending phone calls
 B. By beaming tv signals
C. By taking pictures of earth
D. By taking pictures of space
Ans: C

453. A helical antenna is used for satellite tracking because of …………..

A. Circular polarization
B. Maneuverability
C. Beamwidth
D. Gain
Ans: A

454. Rocket exhaust is also called what?

A. Working fluid
B. Thrust event horizon
C. Gaseous blow off
Ans: A

455. Which mission of NASA brought the first human to the moon?
A. Apollo program
B. Gemini program
C. Mercury program
D. None of the above
Ans: A

456. Orbital disturbances of a geosynchronous satellite are caused by the

A. Moon
B. Sun
C. Earth
D. All of the above
Ans: D

457. What is the definition of rocket?

A. A cylindrical projectile that can be propelled by the combustion of its contents.
B. A vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.
C. Any of several plants of the mustard family: such as arugula.
D. A device that is used to hurl explosives at an enemy.
E. All of these answers are correct.
Ans: E
458. Why do liquid rockets tend to be heavier than solid fuel rockets?
A. Liquids slosh around and cause weight issues.
B. Liquid fuel is heavier than solid fuel.
C. They have more parts.
Ans: C

459. Relating to Newton’s third law, action and reaction, what is the reaction when a rocket
expels gas, smoke and flames from the nozzle end of the rocket engine?
A. Nothing
B. Propels in the opposite direction
C. Creates a balanced force
D. Creates friction
Ans: B

460. What was Chandrayan I……..

A. An earth observation satellite
B. Lunar Probe
C. Navigation satellite
D. Geo stationary satellite
Ans: B

461. Which one of the following statements is correct?

A. Satellite spacing is not affected by the bandwidth of the transmitting earth station
B. Beamwidth is independent of antenna size and frequency band used
C. The width of a beam in space is inversely proportional to the width of the transmitting
antenna
D. Use of high-frequency bands permits less number of satellites to share the orbit
Ans: C

462. Which of the following is the first active satellite?

A. Echo I
B. Telstar I
C. Early Bird
D. Sputnik I
Ans: A

463. In a stop-and-wait ARQ system, the transmitting terminal

 A. Waits for positive or negative acknowled
acknowled-gement
gement from the receiving terminal after
sending a block
B. Sends another block if positive acknowledge is received through ack character
C. Resends the previous block if negative acknowledgement is received through a nak
character
D. Does not wait for acknowledgement after sending a block
Ans: D

464. Identify the various types of rockets parts seen in the picture

A. Nose cone
B. Fin
C. Payload
D. Rocket engine
Ans: B

465. The experimental satellite SROSS abbreviation means?

A. Stretched Rohini Satellite Series
B. Space Rohini Satellite Series
C. Super Rohini Satellite Series
D. None of these
Ans: A

466. Who is the current chairman of ISRO?

A. K Sivan
B. AS Kiran Kumar
C. S Christopher
D. None of these
Ans: A

467. What is the full form of IRNSS?

A. Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
B. Indian Regional Navigation Solar System
C. Indian Research Navigation Satellite System
D. None of these
Ans: A
468. How many manned space missions have been launched by NASA so far?
A. 160
B. 162
C. 164
D. 166
Ans: D

469. The part of a rocket engine where hot gasses exit the engine.
A. Hydrogen tank
B. Nose cone
C. Oxygen tank
D. Nozzle
Ans: D

470. Which one is India’s first satellite exclusively used for educational purposes?
A. NISAR
B. EDUSAT
C. INSAT-4CR
D. None of these
Ans: B

471. Which was India’s first remote sensing satellite?

A. IRS-1A
B. IRS-1C
C. IRS -1G
D. None of these
Ans: A

472. Aerogel is three times heavier than

A. Water
B. Air
C. Gases
D. Glass
Ans: B

473. Venera 9 was sent in space to record surface conditions of

A. Moon
B. Venus
 C. Jupiter
D. Sun
Ans: B

474. "Spikes" seen in images of stars are caused by ______________.

A. Diffraction from the telescope support structures
B. Dispersion from the telescope's primary lens
C. Deflection from the inner surfaces of the telescope
D. Disruption from nearby light sources
Ans: A

475. First space station was built by America named as

A. Sky lab
B. Mir
C. Ultra lab
D. Matrix
Ans: A

476. Which of the following statements are true about GSLV Mk III?
1. GSLV Mk III is conceived and designed to make ISRO fully self reliant in launching
heavier communication satellites of INSAT-4 class, which weighs 4500 to 5000 kg.
2. The vehicle is capable of multi-mission launch capability for GTO, LEO, Polar and
intermediate circular orbits.
3. It will have 3 stages starting from solid propellant in first to restartable liquid stage to
cryogenic in third.
A. 1,2
B. 2,3
C. 1,3
D. All of the above
Ans: D

477. Resistance that slows an object down in the atmosphere (air).

A. Drag
B. Fin
C. Fuselage
D. Speed of sound
Ans: A

478. How many communication satellites is ISRO going to launch by the end of 2017?
 A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Ans: B

479. The accretion disk of a black hole is typically very hot. What kind of telescope would we
use to observe it at its strongest wavelength?
A. A ground-based X-ray telescope
B. A space-based X-ray telescope
C. A ground-based gamma-ray telescope
D. A space-based radio telescope
E. None of these choices are correct.
Ans: B

480. In a reflecting telescope, the secondary mirror causes a hole in the center of the image.
A. True
B. False
Ans: B

481. METSAT the first exclusive meteorological satellite built by ISRO is a?

A. Polar Orbit Satellite
B. Deep Space Probe
C. Low Earth Orbit Satellite
D. Geosynchronous Satellite
Ans: D

482. As the speed of the rocket increases, the distance

A. Remains the same.
B. Increases.
C. Decreases.
D. Is balanced.
Ans: B

483. The effect of tripling the size of a telescope's primary mirror is to triple its resolving power.
A. True
B. False
Ans: A
484. Signals which were sent from satellite to GPS are
A. Thermal signals
B. Wave signal
C. Radio signal
D. Audio signal
Ans: C

485. Radio broadcasting is a familiar example of …………….

A. Space multiplexing
B. Time multiplexing
C. Frequency multiplexing
D. None of the above
Ans: C

486. Which one of the following statements regarding DSI is false?

A. It is a digital form of TASI
B. Though it is more efficient than TASI, it is much slower
C. A speaker has to wait (it at all) for only a few milliseconds for reallocation of channel
D. It has increased the capacity of satellite channels by a factor of 2.2 or more without
degrading speech quality
Ans: B

487. Which one of the following statements regarding compandor is FALSE?

A. It compresses the higher-amplitude parts of a signal before modulation and expands them
back to normal again after demodulation.
B. It gives preferential treatment to the weaker parts of the signal
C. For weaker signals it gives a poor ratio of signal strength to quantizing error
D. Weaker signals traverse more quantum steps than they would do otherwise and so
quantizing error is reduced.
Ans: C

488. How do you calculate the average speed of an object?

A. You take the mass and divide it by the volume.
B. You take the distance the object traveled and divide it by the time the object took to
travel that distance.
C. You take the mass and multiply it by acceleration.
D. You take the distance it traveled and subtract the time.
Ans: B
489. Cloud shadowing is best seen on this type of satellite image:
A. Visible
B. Infrared
C. Water Vapor
Ans: A

490. Why does the useful resolving power of a ground-based telescope not match its theoretical
value?
A. Mirrors can't be built accurately enough.
B. The atmosphere blurs the image, decreasing the resolving power.
C. Mirrors cannot collect enough light to reach their theoretical expectations.
D. The theoretical value can only be reached when there is a Full Moon.
Ans. B

491. The best site for placing an X-ray telescope is _________.

A. A mountain top
B. A valley
C. Near an ocean
D. A desert
E. Above the Earth's atmosphere
Ans: E

492. This satellite imagery shows contrasting temperatures of cloud tops. Approximate cloud
heights can be determined using this imagery:
A. Visible
B. Infrared
C. Water Vapor
Ans: B

493. If a colder surface is next to a warmer surface on conventional infrared imagery, which one
will appear whiter on the satellite image output?
A. The colder surface
B. The warmer surface
Ans: A

494. ISRO will launch India's second mission to moon called _________
A. Chandrayaan 2
B. Chandrayaan 3
C. Chandrayaan 4
 D. None of the above
Ans: A

495. A mechanical force generated by the engines to move the aircraft through the air used to
overcome drag and the aircraft’s weight.
A. Thrust
B. Propellant
C. Rocket
D. Missile
Ans: A

496. What does CCD stand for?

A. Charge-coupled device
B. Cosmic-ray channel detector
C. Charge collecting device
D. Channel-coupled detector
Ans: A

497. The process of distributing heat by mixing air is:

A. Radiation
B. Conduction
C. Convection
Ans: C

498. Clouds on satellite imagery can be identified by their:

A. Texture
B. Brightness
C. Temperature
D. All of the above
Ans: D

499. In this season visible imagery is most useful since the days are longer and the sun angle is
higher:
A. Summer
B. Winter
Ans: A

500. What does GIS stand for?

A. Geographic Information System
 B. Geographic Intelligence System
C. Geographic Interferometry Size
D. Geographic Information Seismograph
Ans: A

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