03-01-2018, 04:29 PM
INDIA’S SPACE PROGRAMMES
*INCOSPAR (Indian National Committee for Space Research) was established in 1962.
*INCOSPAR was formed to formulate the Indian Space Programme.
*India’s space researching agency - ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).
*ISRO was established in the year
An s: 1969 August 15
*ISRO superseded INCOSPAR
*The headquarters of ISRO
An s: Antariksh Bhavan (Bengaluru)
*DOS (Department of Space) and the Space Commission were established in
An s: 1972.
*ISRO was brought under the control of Department of Space in September 1972.
*The first rocket launching station in India
An s: TERLS (Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station) (1962)
*Father of Indian Space Programme
An s: Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
*The first chairman of ISRO
An s: Vikram Sarabhai
*The cradle of Space Sciences in India, Physical Research Laboratory, was founded by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
*Indian Remote Sensing Day
An s: August 12 (Birthday of Vikram Sarabhai)
*The software developed by ISRO which allows users to explore a 2D/ 3D representation of the surface of the earth
An s: Bhuvan
*The first sounding rocket launched from Thumba
An s: Nike - Appache (21st November 1963)
*The Rocket launched from Thumba on the 50th anniversary of first successful launch of a sounding rocket (21st November 2013)
An s: RH. 200
*The commercial wing of ISRO
An s: Antrix Corporation
*Antrix corporation was incorporated on 28 September 1992
*The headquarters of Antrix Corporation is located at Bengaluru.
*The organisation working under ISRO,providing space products and services to international customers world wide
An s: Antrix Corporation
*The first satellite of India
An s: Aryabhatta (19th April 1975)
*Aryabhatta was launched from
Ans : Volgograd (Russia)
*Weight of Aryabhatta
Ans : 360 kg
*The second satellite of India
Ans : Bhaskara (l979)
*The first earth observation satellite of India
Ans : Bhaskara I
*Bhaskara I is the first experimental remote sensing satellite built in India.
*Bhaskara I was launched on 7th June 1979 (from Volgograd, Russia)
*Bhaskara 2 was launched on
Ans : November 20,1981 (Soviet Union)
*The vehicle in which Bhaskara I was launched
Ans : C-l Intercosmos Launch Vehicle (Weight - 442 kg)
*First satellite launched from India
Ans : *Rohini (18th July 1980)
Launch vehicle of Rohini
Ans : SLV 3
*The first indigenously built launch vehcile
Ans : SLV - 3
*Project Director of Rohini
Ans : Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam
*The first Indian communication satellite
Ans : APPLE (Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment)
*It is the first Geostationary satellite built by ISRO.
*Apple was launched on 19 June 1981 from Kourou (French Guyana) in Ariane 1 (V-3) launching vehicle)
*The space craft proposed to be sent by ISRO to study about Sun
Ans : Aditya
*First multipurpose satellite built by India
Ans : INSAT-2A (10th July, 1992)
*India’s first remote sensing satellite - IRS 1A (17th March 1988) from Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazhakhstan)
Astrosat
*India’s first space telescope
Ans : Astrosat
*India’s first multi wave length space observatory.
*Vehicle that carried Astrosat
Ans : PSLV C 30
*Astrosat was launched on
Ans : 28th September 2015
*Astrosat launched from
Satish Dhawan Space Centre
*India has become the 5th country to have its own space observatory after USA, Japan, Russia and European Space Agency (ESA).
*Number of other satellites launched along with Astrosat - 6 (LAPAN - A2 (Indonesia), NLS-14 (Canada), LEMUR Satellites (USA)
*This is the first time an Indian rocket has launched satellites from the US.
New info
*The private aerospace startup company that is planning to send a spacecraft to the moon aboard an ISRO rocket on 28 December 2017
Ans : Team Indus, Bengaluru
