Prelim Bits 11-11-2018

Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities 2018

It is a three-day event organised in Delhi by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in association with Rehabilitation International Korea.
Youth with disabilities from 18 countries have participated in the event.
India has been participating in the event since 2013.
It is to leverage IT skills among youth with disabilities and to spread awareness about the application of ICT in enhancing the quality of life of persons with disabilities.
It is a capacity building project that helps youth with disabilities to overcome their limitations.

Global Cooling Innovation Summit

It is going to be inaugurated by Ministry of Science and Technology in New Delhi.
It is a first-of-its-kind solution focussed event to explore ways to address the climate threat that comes from the growing demand from room air conditioners.
Global cooling prize - Mission Innovation challenge will be launched in this summit.
It aims to spur development of a residential cooling solution that has at least five times less climate impact than today's standard.
The objective of the competition is to develop a cooling technology that

Requires radically less energy to operate,
Utilizes refrigerants with no ozone depletion potential and with low global warming potential, and
Cost-effective at scale.

It is organised by Union Ministry of S&T along with Rocky Mountain Institute, Alliance for An Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), Conservation X Labs and CEPT University.

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Union Cabinet has recently approved the filling of Padur strategic petroleum reserve by overseas national oil companies.
Strategic petroleum reserves are essentially huge stockpiles of crude oil to keep the wheels of the country running in crunch situations.
This is because the government has to stay prepared with emergency stores of crude oil to tide over severe supply shocks of this critical fuel.
India’s strategic crude oil storages are currently located at Visakhapatnam in A.P, Mangaluru, Padur in Karnataka.
The government has given in principle approval to reserve at Chandikhol in Odisha.

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Ralph

It is a space instrument launched by NASA to explore outer solar system.
It was first launched aboard the New Horizons spacecraft in 2006.
It revealed images of Jupiter and its moons and Pluto.
In 2021, Ralph is set to journey with the Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
It will study this diverse group of bodies and will detect trojan asteroid’s chemical foot prints.
It allows scientists to interpret data provided by the Sun’s reflected light that are the fingerprints of different elements and compounds.

Lucy Mission

Lucy is NASA’s robotic mission to explore asteroids.
IT will explore the environment of Jupite's Trojan asteroids
Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans and it will be launched in 2021.
Trojans are bodies that are present in Lagrange points.

Source: The Hindu, PIB