Indian Space Flashcards
Who launched SSLV?
ISRO
When did SSLV launched?
7 August , 2022
What was the name of the sattelite it was carrying?
Earth Observational Sattelite - 02
(EOS-02)
was of 175kg
It also carried an additional sattelite , made by _____ ?
AzaadiSAT
(made by kids under “SpaceKidz India”)
was of 8kg
__ the smallest sattelite made by ISRO till now??
SSLV
will take only 72 hours to integrate with 5-6 people only
What is the name of the orbit encompasses Earth-centred orbits with an altitude of 2,000 km (1,200 mi) or less?
Low Earth Orbit
SSLV was an LEO based
SSLV is launched from
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
Which was India’s first experimental satellite launch vehicle.?
Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV-3)
successfully launched on July 18, 1980
ye pehli launch vechile hai
What was the name of the satellite SLV-03 was having?
Rohini-01
ye pehla satellite hai
Which was the first Indian launch vehicle to be equipped with liquid stages?
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
is the third generation launch vehicle of India
ISRO has also developed a reusable rocket named?
RLV-TD (Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator)
had a successful test flight in 2016
ISRO is the space agency under
Department of Space of Government of India
HQ- BANGALORE , INDIA
Who is the current chairman of ISRO?
Sreedhara Panicker Somanath
Who is the founding father of Indian space programme?
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
Who set up INCOSPAR?
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
INCOSPAR full form?
Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR)
was set-up in 23 February 1962
What was the name of experiment which was hailed as ‘the largest sociological experiment in the world’?
Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE)
INCOSPAR was superseded by?
ISRO
INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION
When was ISRO made?
15 August 1969
What was the name of the first Indian Satellite?
Aryabhatta
19 April , 1975
From where was Aryabhatta launched?
Kapustir Yan ( a soviet site)
along with rocket named Kosmos-3M
What became the forerunner for future communication satellite system?
Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment (APPLE)
From where was APPLE launched?
Guiana Space Centre
in Kourou , French Guiana
with the rocket named Ariane 01
Which provides services to telecommunications, television broadcasting, satellite newsgathering, societal applications, weather forecasting, disaster warning and Search and Rescue operations?
INSAT System
INSAT (Indian National Satellite System)
is India’s first telecommunications satellite system
Which provides services to telecommunications, television broadcasting, satellite newsgathering, societal applications, weather forecasting, disaster warning and Search and Rescue operations?
INSAT System
INSAT (Indian National Satellite System)
is India’s first telecommunications satellite system
What was the name of the first INSAT sattelite?
INSAT - 1A
was launched on 10 April 1982
From where was INSAT - 1A launched?
Launch Complex 17A ,Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
From where was INSAT - 1A launched?
Launch Complex 17A ,Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Who launched the first series of INSAT?
NASA
By whom was INSAT - 1A formed?
Ford Aerospace
What is designed to provide accurate position information service to assist in the navigation of ships in the Indian Ocean waters?
IRNSS
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
Which is India’s first satellite-based global positioning system that relies on ISRO’s GSAT satellites?
GAGAN
GPS-Aided GEO Augmented Navigation
in 2001
What is the operational name of IRNSS?
NaviC
having a extending boundary upto 1500km
India’s first mission to moon?
Chandrayaan-01
October 22, 2008
was an unmanned spacecraft
What was the name of the launch vechile which was used to launch Chandrayaan - 1?
PSLV-C11
What is the name of the India’s second mission to the Moon is a totally indigenous mission comprising of an Orbiter, Lander and Rover?
Chandrayaan-02
is ISRO’s first attempt to land on any extraterrestrial surface
pehla vaala khaali orbit me ghoom ne ke liye tha
What was the anme of the launch vechile that carried Chandrayaan 2?
GSLV MK III M1
What is the name of the Lander and Rover?
Lander (Vikram) and Rover (Pragyan)
What is India’s first interplanetary mission?
Mars Orbited Mission (MOM)
launched on November 5, 2013
What was the name of the launched vechile used to launch MOM?
PSLV-XL C-25
ISRO has become __ agency to reach mars after ?
4th after
1. Soviet space program,
2. NASA,
3. the European Space Agency
What is the name of moons of Mars?
Phobos and Deimos
What is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously>
AstroSAT
September 28, 2015
PSLV-C30 was the launch vechile
What programme by ISRO envisages undertaking the demonstration of human spaceflight to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in the short term and will lay the foundation for a sustained Indian human space exploration program in the long run?
Gaganyaan
called the Orbital Module
The total cost of the Gaganyaan Programme is approximately
INR 9023 Crore
What is the name of the launch vechile for GAGANYAAN?
GSLV Mk III, also called the LVM-3 (Launch Vehicle Mark-3)
How many people will be in GAGANYAAN?
3 including 1 woman
Which country signed in a contract with India with regards to GAGANYAAN mission training?
Russia
In the contract , what was the name of the space vechile which was to be studied?
Soyuz , a Russian spacecraft
The Soyuz carries people and supplies to and from the space station
How many ABORT MISSION will be done by ISRO to make it sure that GAGANYAAN is safe?
Two
India will be __ nation to launch a mission after ?
4th after US , Russia , China
Which engine uses Hydrogen as fuel and the Oxygen from the atmospheric air as the oxidise made by ISRO?
SCRAMJET
(Supersonic Combusting RAMJET)
what was launched to provide a level playing field for private companies to use Indian space infrastructure?
INSPACe
* a single-point interface between ISRO & everyone who wants to participate/use India’s space resources
June 2020 me launch hua tha
What are the two commercial arms of ISRO?
- Antrix
- NewSpace India Limited (NSIL)
When was Antrix Cooproration formed??
1992 , September
will handle ISRO’s comm. deal for satellite,launch vehicle with foreign
is a private corp. under Department of Space
Who is the head of Antrix?
Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
When was NSIL established?
2019
is a Central Public Sector Enterprise of the Government of India
will deal with capacity building of local industry for space manufacturing
What will act as a single-window and independent agency on matters related to space technology.?
Indian Space Association (ISpA)
* aspires to be the collective voice of the Indian Space industry
When was ISpA estabished?
December 2022
Who is the head of ISpA?
Jayant Patil
What is the first dedicated commercial mission of New Space India Limited (NSIL)?
Amazonia - 1 , a Brazil Satellite
* would provide remote sensing data to users for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon region and analysis of diversified agriculture across the Brazilian territory
the launch vechile was ** PSLV-C51**
It is put in a sun-synchronous polar orbit.
Which thing have been deployed to provide Radio relay services?
UNITYsat
a total of three satellites
__ is a nano satellite intended to study the radiation levels/space weather and demonstrate long range communication technologies?
Satish Dhawan Satellite (SDSAT)
Which is the world’s smallest and lightest communication satellite?
KalamSAT
by SpaceKidz
Which is an organization creating ‘young scientists for the country and spreading awareness among children for a borderless world.?
SpaceKidz
Who is the CEO of SpaceKidz?
Srimathy Kesan
Which project will help Navy in identifying suspicious ships through satellite imaging?
SindhuNetra
Chandrayaan 3 is expected to be launched with help of?
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
* was formed on 1 October 2003
* HQ: Chōfu in Tokyo, Japan
Which mission will see an Indian spacecraft going 1.5 million kms away to the L1 or Lagrangian point between the Sun and Earth?
Aditya L1
will be ISRO’s 2nd space-based astronomy mission after AstroSat
What is the name of positions in space where the gravitational forces of a two-body system (like the Sun and the Earth) produce enhanced regions of attraction and repulsion?
Langrange Point 1
The L1 point is home to the __ an international collaboration project of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA)
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite (SOHO)
which was the first artificial Earth satellite in space?
Sputnik 1
by the USSR on 4 October 1957
Every year [???] is celebrated as International Space Week
October 4-10
Which is the oldest man-made satellite still in orbit?
Vanguard-1
was the first satellite to have solar electric power
launched by US
The largest satellite that orbit the Earth is
Internation Space Station
* It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA
was launched on 20 November 1998
Who was the first man in space?
Yury Gagarin
in Vostok 1
Who was the first woman to got to space?
Valentina Tereshkova
in Vostok 6
Who was the first person to walk in space?
Aleksey Leonov
in Voshkod 2
Who were the first person to walk on moon?
Neil Armstrong; Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin
in Apollo 11
Who were the first person to walk on moon?
Neil Armstrong; Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin
in Apollo 11
who was the first Indian to go to space?
Rakesh Sharma
Soyuz T-11/Salyut 7
who was the first Indian to go to space?
Rakesh Sharma
Soyuz T-11/Salyut 7
what is the term used for an INDIAN astronaut ?
VyomNaut
Who was the first Indian woman to go to space?
Kalpana Chawla
The Department of Space in India is headed
Modi Ji
HQ : Antariksh Bhavan, Bengaluru
what is the first effort to
provide a global scale measurement of sodium on the
lunar surface using X-ray
fluorescent spectra ?
Chandrayaan 2
____ has been designated as the Principal Scientist of the Aditya-L1 mission.
Dr. Sankarasubramanian K.
____ is the first observatory-class space-based solar mission from India
Aditya-L1
Aditya L-1 will be placed in a halo orbit around the
first Lagrange point, L1, of the Sun-Earth system
Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that it is expecting to launch the Venus mission by :
December 2024
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced two new robotic missions to Venus :
- DaVinci Plus: will analyze the thick, cloudy Venusian atmosphere
- Veritas: seeking a geologic history by mapping the rocky planet’s surface
the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has completed the static test of the human-rated ____ for Gaganyaan programme
Solid rocket booster (HS200)
world’s second largest operational booster using solid propellants
is a 20-metre-long booster with a diameter of 3.2 metres
HS200 Solid Rocket Booster is part of the
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII (GSLV Mk III) rocket
will have two HS200 boosters
The HS200 is the human-rated version of the S200 rocket booster of satellite launch vehicle GSLV Mk III, popularly known as
LVM3
Which is the largest, most powerful solid propellant booster ever built for flight?
Space Launch System(SLS) Solid Rocket Booster
2nd is HS200
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest rocket:
Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mark 3)
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota
This mission is being undertaken as part of the commercial arrangement between NSIL and m/s Network Access Associates Limited (m/s OneWeb Ltd), a U.K. based company. Name it
LVM3-M2
____ is a joint venture between India’s Bharti Enterprises and the U.K. government.
OneWeb
How many satellites have been placed into orbits under LVM-3?
36
The European Space Agency’s____ mission won’t launch in September, 2022 to mars
ExoMars 2022
Sattelite of India meant for heavy communication
Gslv mk II
Europe’s Heaviest
Arianne 5
Most powereful for commercial uses
Space X’s “FALCON HEAVY”
China’s Heaviest
Long March
ISRO IPRC Successfully Tests Engine for Gaganyaan at
MahendraGiri , Tirunelveli , tamil Nadu
