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  Skyroot Aerospace: 1 st Indian Private company to Test-Fire Full solid propulsion Rocket Stage     Skyroot Aerospace recently became the first private company in India to test-fire a full solid propulsion rocket stage. Skyroot Aerospace successfully test-fired “Kalam-5”, a solid propulsion rocket stage. Key points ·         The propulsion stage rocket was designed, developed, and tested by the company. ·         Kalam-5 is built with an advanced carbon composition structure in a fully automated process. ·         The solid propulsion rocket stage is uses9 different manufacturing process,15 different advanced materials and has zero moving parts. ·         The successful test firing of kalam-5 has given confidence to the company that is under construction. ·         The company is ...

  Key Facts about BSE’s E-Agricultural Markets Ltd(BEAM)   The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has lunched an electronic spot platform for Agricultural commodities on December 11,2020.It has been named as BSE’s Agricultural market limited (BEAM).   Key words o    The platform has been lunched through the subsidiary “BSE Investments Limited”. o    BSE witnessed a trading of two tons of imported almond. The total worth value of this treading was more than ? 6 lakh on the lunched day of BEAM. o    The platform facilitates the spot agricultural commodities transactions across the value chain. o    The value chain comprise of intermediaries, consumers, producers and ancillary services. Features of “e-agricultural markets limited” BEAM o    BEAM makes use of the states-of-the-art technology that offer the customized solutions to treads, farmers and stakeholder. o    The platform helps in facilitating ...

  Mount Everest’s new height -key facts   Nepal and china have made an announcement on December 8, 2020 that the new height of Mount Everest has been recorded as 8848.86 meters.     Highlights ·         The announcement was made by Nepal Foreign minister Pradeep kumar Gyawali that Nepal has reached at Mount Everest’s height. ·         Both, Nepal and China, worked nointly for almost a year so as to process the data regarding the measurement of the highest peak. Height of the mountain As per the survey conducted by India in 1954, the old height of Mt Everest was recorded as 8848 meters. While the new height of Nepal is 0.86 meters more than the previous measurement.   Background Nepal Started the initiative the height of mount Everest because of the several speculation that the height of the mountain (8848 meters) might have changed in the backdrop of devastating 201...

  Bharat Biotech applied for ‘Emergency Use Authorization’       The developer of indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, Bharat Biotech, has applied to the central drug regulator (DCGI) and asked the permission of emergency use authorization for its vaccine called COVAXIN.     HIGHLIGHTS ·         The Bharat Biotech which is a Hyderabad based firm has become the third applicant to apply for the approval of emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine. ·         Other two firm that has applied for emergency use Authorization include-the Serum Institute of India and Pfizer.   COVAXIN ·         COVAXIN is India’s indigenously developed vaccine. ·         It has been developed by Bharat Biotech. ·         Vaccine was developed in collaboration with Indian council of Medical Re...

  What Is filecoin? How does it work? In simple words, Filecoin is a cryptocurrency that allows a person to rent out extra additional space on their computer. It I an open-source and decentralized method of data storage and retrieval.   Key points related to filecoin   ·       The filecoin project was lunched in the year 2017 and raised $200 million in an initial coin offering (ICO). ·       ICO is funding provided using cryptocurrencies. ·       Filecoin is created by protocol labs which is research and development laboratory funded by scientist Juan Benet. ·       The total network storage filecoin has reached above 1.1 million TB or 1 EiB(exbibyte).     Advantage of filecoin o    A filecoin tends to create a larger free storage market for data, it will bring down the price for storage. o      Filecoin connects a lo...

What is Green Hydrogen? Hydrogen that is produced from renewable energy sources is called Green Hydrogen.It has gained much importance in the global world and it is believed that the fuel can play a major role in decarbonizing sectors of the economy   that is hard-to-electrify   like aviation, long-haul trucking and heavy manufacturing.   How is Green Hydrogen Formed?     Green Hydrogen is produced if renewable energy is used to produced electricity for the electrolysis of water. In this case, the hydrogen is produced without any harmful emission.                                               Distribution of Green Hydrogen Hydrogen can be distributed in liquefied or compressed form or through a pipeline. Compressed or liquefied distribution can be done by both land and sea. The entire value chain is green starting from the pr...