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- Bengaluru
- Hyderabad
- Ahmedabad
- Mysuru
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Correct answer: A. Bengaluru
The national space agency has its headquarters in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
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ISRO runs its space programme from a headquarters in which Indian city?Read the answer and worked solution →INCOSPAR, set up in 1962, was renamed ISRO in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →At Thumba, India began upper atmosphere research by firing which kind of rockets?Read the answer and worked solution →An Indian sounding rocket series launched from 1967 onwards carried which name?Read the answer and worked solution →India's first satellite, placed in orbit by a Soviet rocket, was named after whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which body was created in 1972, along with a space commission, to oversee Indian space technology?Read the answer and worked solution →India's first orbital launcher, the SLV, could lift about how much into a 400 km orbit?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian rocket, introduced in the 1990s, launched hundreds of foreign satellites to low Earth orbit?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandrayaan-1 was launched in 2008 aboard which Indian launch vehicle?Read the answer and worked solution →A probe released from Chandrayaan-1 at a height of 100 km recorded evidence of what on the Moon?Read the answer and worked solution →The Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyaan, was launched in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →After the Soviet programme, NASA and ESA, ISRO became which number of space agencies to reach Mars?Read the answer and worked solution →Mangalyaan made India the first Asian nation to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →On which date was Chandrayaan-2 launched?Read the answer and worked solution →The Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram lost its signal at roughly what height above the Moon?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandrayaan-3 completed a soft landing near which part of the Moon on 23 August 2023?Read the answer and worked solution →In Chandrayaan-3, the rover that rolled out of the lander Vikram was named what?Read the answer and worked solution →From which spaceport in Andhra Pradesh was Chandrayaan-3 launched?Read the answer and worked solution →The INSAT system serves telecommunication, broadcasting, meteorology and which other need?Read the answer and worked solution →INSAT satellites stay above one spot on the equator, so they are placed in which orbit?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian Remote Sensing earth observation satellites mostly travel in which kind of orbit?Read the answer and worked solution →NavIC gives accurate position data up to about how far beyond India's borders?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the aviation aid GAGAN stand for?Read the answer and worked solution →The SARAL satellite, built with France, helps scientists monitor what?Read the answer and worked solution →The 600 kg Space Capsule Recovery Experiment launched in 2007 returned to Earth after how long?Read the answer and worked solution →In which city will ISRO set up an astronaut training centre for crewed flights?Read the answer and worked solution →Project NETRA, announced in 2019, was meant to counter which space problem?Read the answer and worked solution →Which colour arrow shoots upward in the official ISRO logo in use since 2002?Read the answer and worked solution →Who inaugurated the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur on 18 August 1951?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was India's Defence Research and Development Organisation formed?Read the answer and worked solution →
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INCOSPAR, set up in 1962, was renamed ISRO in which year?
- 1965
- 1972
- 1969
- 1975
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Correct answer: C. 1969
The committee became ISRO in 1969, three years after it began, and a separate Department of Space followed in 1972.
At Thumba, India began upper atmosphere research by firing which kind of rockets?
- Cruise missiles
- Weather balloons
- Cargo ferries
- Sounding rockets
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Correct answer: D. Sounding rockets
Small sounding rockets were fired from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station to study the upper atmosphere.
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