Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)

Question 1

Context?

Answer 1

selected as a ‘Milestone’ facility by the U.S.-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

-Not a ISRO mission

Question 2

About GMRT?

Answer 2

• located near Pune
• array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45-metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths.
• operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
• built 1984 to 1996 by govind swarup
• Astronomers from all over the world regularly use this telescope to observe galaxies, pulsars, supernovae, and Sun and solar winds.

Question 3

What is IEEE?

Answer 3

• world’s largest technical professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology in all areas related to electrical and electronics engineering.
• only the third such IEEE ‘Milestone’ recognition for an Indian contribution
• previous two Sir J.C. Bose to demonstrate the generation and reception of radio waves in 1895 (recognised in 2012), and for the Nobel Prize-winning (in 1930) ‘scattering of light’ phenomenon observed by Sir C.V. Raman in 1928.