03-01-2018, 04:36 PM
G.S.L.V - D5
*India's first sucessful indigenous space launching vehicle with cryogenic engine
Ans : G.S.L.V D5
*G.S.L.V.D5 was launched on
Ans : 5th January 2014
*Satellite launched by using G.S.L.V D5
Ans : GSAT - 14
*India become 6th country to have cryogenic engine Resourcesat 2A
*Remote sensing satellite that was successfully launched on 7 December 2016
Ans : Resourcesat - 2A
*Launch Vehicle of Resourcesat-2A
Ans : PSLV-C36
*PSLV C36 was launched from - Sktishl Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharikota and is the 37th consecutively successful mission of PSLV
*PSLV-C36 is the thirty eighth flight of ISRO’s PSLV
*PSLV 35 is the first PSLV mission to successfully launch 8 satellites into two different orbits in a single flight.
*This PSLV mission was the longest of the PSLV missions conducted till date & was completed in 2 hours 15 minutes & 33 seconds after lift off. The satellites carried three satellites from India (Spat Sat -1, Pisat & Pratham) three satellites from Algeria (Alsat-I B, 2B & IN), one each from Canad (NLS-19) & the United Sates (Pathfinder1).
Scramjet Engine
*India successfully test fired its own scramjet engine in flight on board an Advanced Technology Vehicle Rocket (ATV)
Ans : 28 August 2016
*India is the fourth country to demonstrate the flight testing of scramjet engine, (other countries - US, Russia & European Space Agency)
*The Scramjet engine is used only during the atmospheric phase of the rocket’s flight.
*Scramjet engines will help bringing down launch cost by reducing the amount of oxidiser to be carried along with the fuel,
*Scramjet engines designed by ISRO uses 4 hydrogen as fuel & the oxygen from the atmospheric air as the oxidiser.
G SAT - 18
*India’s latest indigenous communication satellite - GSAT 18 (6th October 2016)
*GSAT - 18 was launched from
Ans : Kourou (French Guiana)
*Rocket used to launch GSAT 18
Ans : Ariane - 5 VA - 231
*Biggest launching rocket in the world
Ans : Ariane-5
*GSAT 15 was launched on 11 thNovember 2015 from Kourou French Guiana by Ariane -5VA- 227
*GSAT 16 was launched on 7th December 2014 by Ariane -5 VA - 221
