Current affairs

Astronomy Current Affairs
• DRDO successfully test-fires Akash air defence missiles
• Pakistan successfully test-fired surface-to-surface Ballistic Missile named ‘Hataf-III’
• First indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra successfully test fired on 4 May 2014
• India successfully test fired its medium range surface-to-air missile called Akash
• Pakistan successfully test-fired short range ballistic missile Hatf-III named Ghazanvi
• ISRO launched India’s 2nd regional navigational satellite IRNSS 1B from Sriharikota Space Station
• India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile
• India successfully test-fired Akash missile from ITR Complex in Chandipur
• Isro’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft Mangalyaan completed 100 days in space on 12 February 2014
• Prithvi II, the Nuclear capable Surface-to-Surface missile, successfully test-fired
• ISRO successfully launched its heavy-duty rocket GSLV-D5 carrying communication satellite GSAT-14
• Agni-III missile was successfully test-fired from the Wheeler Island of Odisha Coast
• India has successfully test-fired the Pinaka rockets from a multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) at Chandipur