{"id":21948,"date":"2017-02-11T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=21948"},"modified":"2017-02-11T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T09:29:44","slug":"interceptor-missile-successfully-test-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/interceptor-missile-successfully-test-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Interceptor missile successfully test-fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: The Wheeler Island in Bhadrak district of Odisha has been renamed as \u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Abdul Kalam Island<br \/>\n(b) Nagarjun Island<br \/>\n(c) Bhaskaracharya Island<br \/>\n(d) None of the above.<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 11th February, 2017, India successfully test-fired its interceptor missile off the Odisha coast from Abdul Kalam Island (Wheeler Island) at about 7.45 AM.<\/li>\n<li>It is a significant milestone in the direction of developing a two-layered Ballistic Missile Defence system.<\/li>\n<li>This mission termed as \u201cPDV mission is for engaging the targets in the exo-atmosphere region at an altitude above 50 km of earth\u2019s atmosphere. Both, the PDV interceptor and the two stage target missile, were successfully engaged.<\/li>\n<li>The target was developed for mimicking a hostile Ballistic Missile approaching from more than 2000 km away was launched from a ship anchored in the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>In an automated operation, radar based detection and tracking system detected and tracked the enemy\u2019s ballistic missile.<\/li>\n<li>The computer network with the help of data received from radars predicted the trajectory of the incoming Ballistic Missile.<\/li>\n<li>PDV took-off once the computer system gave the necessary command for lift-off. The Interceptor guided by high accuracy Inertial Navigation System and supported by a Redundant Micro Navigation System moved towards the estimated point of the interception.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/Interceptor-missile-successfully-test-fired\/article17287777.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/Interceptor-missile-successfully-test-fired\/article17287777.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/odisha-government-renames-wheeler-island-as-abdul-kalam-island\/1\/465811.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/odisha-government-renames-wheeler-island-as-abdul-kalam-island\/1\/465811.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The Wheeler Island in Bhadrak district of Odisha has been renamed as \u2026 (a) Abdul Kalam Island (b) Nagarjun Island (c) Bhaskaracharya Island (d) None of the above. Ans: (a) On 11th February, 2017, India successfully test-fired its interceptor missile off the Odisha coast from Abdul Kalam Island (Wheeler Island) at about 7.45 AM. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[3119],"class_list":["post-21948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-science-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}