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WorksheetsCosmic cruises
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Established in 1969 by Vikram Sarabhai, the Indian Space Research Organization (or ISRO, as it is popular) is headquartered at
Bangaluru
Kochi
Vishakapathnam
Delhi
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.
Donald Trump
Vladimir Putin
Vikram Sarabhai
Mahatma Gandhi
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 barrier island off the coast of Andhra Pradesh, houses ISRO’s primary launch centre.
India became the first nation to put a satellite into Martian orbit successfully in its first attempt, when ________________________ entered it on 24 September 2014.
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.
In 1969, ________________________ was transferred to ISRO and headed India’s first SLV or satellite launch vehicle project.
Dr. Rani Lakshmi Bai
Dr. Vikram
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.
In 2009, ISRO developed ________________________, a Web-based 3D satellite imagery tool, basically an Indian incarnation of Google Earth.
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.
