IBPS PO General Awareness: Space Technology questions with solutions

Q1. What is the name of the winged vehicle used by ISRO in the third Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) Landing Experiment (LEX-03) conducted in June 2024?

1. Vikram
2. Pushpak
3. Gaganyaan
4. Shakti

Answer: Pushpak

ISRO’s winged reusable launch vehicle used in the LEX-03 landing experiment is named Pushpak. The experiment demonstrated autonomous landing capabilities for the RLV technology demonstrator.

Q2. Which country launched the world's biggest transport spaceship, Kounotori-8, for the space station in September 2019?

1. China
2. Russia
3. USA
4. Japan

Answer: Japan

Kounotori is Japan's HTV cargo spacecraft used to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. Kounotori-8 was launched by Japan in September 2019.

Q3. A Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS), a payload onboard which orbiter, has detected solar proton events that significantly increase the radiation exposure to humans in space?

1. Mangalyaan 2
2. Shukrayaan-1
3. Aditya-L1
4. Chandrayaan-2

Answer: Chandrayaan-2

CLASS stands for Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer and is a payload onboard Chandrayaan-2's orbiter. It has detected solar proton events that can increase radiation exposure in space. Hence, the correct answer is Chandrayaan-2.

Q4. What was the name of the Space Shuttle carrying Kalpana Chawla that exploded in February 2003 with its crew on board?

1. Challenger
2. Discovery
3. Columbia
4. Atlantis

Answer: Columbia

Kalpana Chawla was part of the STS-107 mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. The shuttle broke apart during re-entry in February 2003, killing all crew members.