September Current Affairs part 2

 Hello friends in this article we are going to continue our Current Affairs series.

1. American Defense contractor Northrop Grumman named its NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft 'S.S. Kalpana Chawla' after the late astronaut. "It's our tradition to name each Cygnus after an individual who has played pivotal role in human spaceflight. Kalpana Chawla was selected in honor of her prominent place in history as the first woman of Indian descent to go to space," Northrop Grumman said. 

Important Points- i. American Defense Headquarter- Virginia, US.

ii. Launch Date of NG-14 Cygnus Spacecraft- 29 Sept, 2020.

iii. Cygnus is a unmanned satellite launched from NASA. 

iv. NASA stands for- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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2. NASA is looking for private companies to collect dust and rocks from the Moon's surface and sell them to it. This will be a part of a technology development program that would help astronauts live off the land for future manned missions. The firms will have to provide imagery of the material and the location from which it was.

Important points- i. NASA stands for- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ii. Headquarter of NASA- Washington D.C. , US.

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3.A 13-million-year-old fossil is found in Uttarakhand comes from a newly discovered ape species, which is the earnest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon, researchers have said. The fossil, a complete lower molar, belongs to previously unknown genus and species, Kapi ramnagarensis. 

Important points- 

i. Uttarakhand Capital- Dehradun (Winter), Gairsain (Summer)

ii. Uttarakhand Chief Minister- Trivendra Singh Rawat

iii. Uttarakhand Governor- Baby Rani Maurya

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August Current affairs part 3

 Hello friends, today we are going to continue the current affair series.

1. The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEED) on Monday declared the SSLC results. A total of 6 students scored 625/625 marks in exams. The state recorded a pass percentage of 71.80%, which is reportedly a drop of 1.9% in comparison with the pass percentage of 2019. Over 8 lakh students from the state appeared for exam.

2. The Delhi University has activated an online portal for insurance of digital degree certificates to students who graduated from the University up till last year but did not receive their degrees, the Delhi High Court was informed. The university said that the students have to register at www.digicerti.du.ac.in, after which the digital degree certificates will be issued within a week.

3. A study sugested that 50 minutes dry heat in an electric cooker can decontaminate N95 respirators inside and out while maintaining their filtration and fit. Researchers verified that one cooking cycle, which maintained the cooker's temperature around 100 degree Celsius. Decontaminated the mask. It helped in getting rid of 4 different classes of virus including Corona virus.

4. Researchers have discovered a a 'bizarre'reptile fossil, which had a neck three times long from its torso, which lived in water. First described in 1852, the 20 foot long and lived 242 million years ago. They also said that the 'Tanystropheus hydroides' shared coastal waters with another smaller but similar-looking Tanystropheus species.

5. NASA has gathered the first full global map of helium, in the solar atmosphere using the sounding rocket launched in 2009. Using the images of the solar corona, scientists figured equatorial regions had almost no helium while areas at mid latitudes had the most helium. They further said abundance at mid latitudes overlaps with where Sun's magnetic field lines open out in the solar system.

6. Kobe University researchers have discovered what they believe may be the largest impact crater in the solar system located on Jupiter's biggest moon named Ganymede, they found these concentrical rings are distributed across almost the entire moon surface. This global distribution indicates the rings may be the remains of crater covering Ganymede.

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