ISRO
ISRO
(Indian space research organization) is the space research center in India. ISRO
established in 1969 august 15. Head office of ISRO is at Bangalore it is named as
“Antariksh bhavan”. Father of Indian space research centre is Dr. Vikram sarabhai and he himself was the
first chairman of ISRO, Dr. Radhakrishnan was the first malayalee chairman of
ISRO. The first Rocket launched at Thumpa on 21 November,
1963. Thumpa located near Equator, thats why it is also known equatorial rocket
launching station.
VSSC
(Vikram sarabhai space research centre) .V S S C is situated in Trivandram.
Aryabhatta is the first satellite of India launched in Soviet Union in 19 April
1975.Weight of Aryabhatta is 360 kg. The second satellite launched of India was
Bhaskara-1 launched in Soviet Union on 7 June 1979.
Rohini
was the first satellite longed by the ISRO
in India in 1981 May 30 it was launched from Sriharikota.it was the launched throught
S L V which was India’s own launching vehicle. Sriharikota is the only one
launching centre in India. Sriharikota is an Island situated at the bank of Bay
of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh. Satellite launching center in sriharikota is named
as ‘Sathish Dhawan’ this name is given in 2002.Function started at Sriharikota
on 1971 October. ‘Andrx Corporation’ is a trade market under ISRO. APPLE (The Ariane Passenger payload Experiment) was
the first Communication satellite of India launched in South America. on 19 Jun, 1981.
P.S.L.V (Polar Satellite launch vehicle) and G.S.L.V (Geo synchronous satellite launch
vehicle) are the launching vehicles of India. The Edusat is an educational
satellite launched on 20 September 2004.Kalpana -1 is the first Meteorological satellite in
India .The Chandrayaan-1 was launched on 22 October, 2008 from Sriharikota .The
presence of water is conformed at moon by the help of Chandrayaan-1. The SARAL is the last launched satellite from ISRO. The
type of launched satellite are “Earth observation satellite, Geo stationery
satellite, Experimental /Small experimental and Space mission”. And also
launched missile from ISRO ‘AGNI’ series are “AGNI-I, AGNI-II, AGNI-III, AGNI-IV,
AGNI-V, AGNI-VI.”
MISSILE
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RANGE
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TYPE
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AGNI-I
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700-1250 Km
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Medium-range ballistic missile
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AGNI-II
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2000-3000 Km
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Intermediate-range ballistic missile
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AGNI-III
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3500-5000 Km
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Intermediate range ballistic missile
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AGNI-IV
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3000-4000 Km
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Intermediate range ballistic missile
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AGNI-V
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500-8000 Km
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Intercontinental ballistic missile
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AGNI-VI
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8000-10,000Km
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Intercontinental ballistic missile
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