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Cosmic cruises

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Established in 1969 by Vikram Sarabhai, the Indian Space Research Organization (or ISRO, as it is popular) is headquartered at

a)

Bangaluru

b)

Kochi

c)

Vishakapathnam

d)

Delhi

2.

The largest ISRO base, the ________________________ Space Centre, is the main technical hub for the development of the SLV-3, ASLV, and the PSLV series of satellite launch vehicles.

a)

Donald Trump

b)

Vladimir Putin

c)

Vikram Sarabhai

d)

Mahatma Gandhi

3.

Named after an ancient Indian astronomer, the ________________________ was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar using a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle.

a)
Aryabhata
b)
Galileo
c)
Copernicus
d)
Bhaskara
4.

________________________, a barrier island off the coast of Andhra Pradesh, houses ISRO’s primary launch centre.

a)
Chennai
b)
Kochi
c)
Visakhapatnam
d)
Sriharikota
5.

India became the first nation to put a satellite into Martian orbit successfully in its first attempt, when ________________________ entered it on 24 September 2014.

a)
Chandrayaan
b)
Astrosat
c)
NavIC
d)
Mangalyaan
6.

Launched via PSLV-XL on 28 September 2015, ________________________ is India’s first dedicated multi-wavelength astronomy mission. It has propelled India into the elite club of nations with their own space observatories.

a)
Astrosat
b)
INSAT-3B
c)
Mangalyaan
d)
Chandrayaan
7.

In 1969, ________________________ was transferred to ISRO and headed India’s first SLV or satellite launch vehicle project.

a)
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
b)
Dr. Homi Bhabha
c)

Dr. Rani Lakshmi Bai

d)

Dr. Vikram

8.

Situated near the southern tip of the Indian mainland, ________________________ was ISRO’s first and only launch site till the Satish Dhawan Space Centre was established in Sriharikota in 1971.

a)
Thumba
b)
Kochi
c)
Mumbai
d)
Chennai
9.

In 2009, ISRO developed ________________________, a Web-based 3D satellite imagery tool, basically an Indian incarnation of Google Earth.

a)
Bhuvan
b)
SkyMapper
c)
EarthView
d)
GeoMap
10.

Three nations had soft-landed on the moon before India did with Chandrayaan-3 on 23 August 2023, but India’s was the first successful landing near the lunar ________________________ pole.

a)
south
b)
equatorial
c)
west
d)
east