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Which country's rocket put India's first satellite Aryabhata into orbit?Read the answer and worked solution →On whose suggestion did the Government of India set up INCOSPAR in 1962?Read the answer and worked solution →Under which Prime Minister's government was INCOSPAR superseded by ISRO?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year were the Space Commission and Department of Space set up?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was appointed first director of the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the name of India's indigenous series of sounding rockets developed from 1967?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scientist sounded the ionosphere with ground-based radio in Kolkata in the 1920s?Read the answer and worked solution →Who founded the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad?Read the answer and worked solution →Who served as the first secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy founded in 1950?Read the answer and worked solution →The Colaba Observatory for meteorology and geomagnetism was established in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →ARIES was established in 1954 in the foothills of which mountain range?Read the answer and worked solution →How much mass could the SLV place into a 400 km orbit?Read the answer and worked solution →Which launch vehicle carried Chandrayaan-1 in 2008?Read the answer and worked solution →India's Mars Orbiter Mission made it the first country to reach Mars orbit in which attempt?Read the answer and worked solution →The Mars Orbiter Mission was the first Asian spacecraft to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →India ranks as which country with full launch capability?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the heavy-lift launcher LVM3 introduced?Read the answer and worked solution →Project NETRA, announced in 2019, was meant to counter which problem?Read the answer and worked solution →On which date did Chandrayaan-3 achieve its soft landing near the lunar south pole?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the name of the lander of Chandrayaan-3?Read the answer and worked solution →The SpaDeX mission launched on 30 December 2024 demonstrated which capability?Read the answer and worked solution →Which was ISRO's first dedicated meteorological satellite?Read the answer and worked solution →SARAL, launched in February 2013, was an Indian cooperative satellite mission with which country?Read the answer and worked solution →In which kind of orbit are most IRS satellites placed?Read the answer and worked solution →INSAT satellites are multipurpose satellites placed in which orbit?Read the answer and worked solution →The GAGAN system is an Indian augmentation system for which global service?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the operational name of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System?Read the answer and worked solution →NavIC's primary service area extends up to how far beyond India's borders?Read the answer and worked solution →Which launch vehicle was discontinued after limited success and multiple failures?Read the answer and worked solution →On which date did CSIR come into operation as an autonomous body?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which country's rocket put India's first satellite Aryabhata into orbit?

  1. The Soviet Union
  2. United States
  3. Great Britain
  4. West Germany
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Correct answer: A. The Soviet Union

Aryabhata was orbited through a Soviet rocket under India's cooperation with the Interkosmos programme.

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On whose suggestion did the Government of India set up INCOSPAR in 1962?

  1. Homi Bhabha
  2. C.V. Raman
  3. Vikram Sarabhai
  4. Meghnad Saha
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Correct answer: C. Vikram Sarabhai

INCOSPAR, the forerunner of ISRO, was created in 1962 at Vikram Sarabhai's suggestion.

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Under which Prime Minister's government was INCOSPAR superseded by ISRO?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. Lal Bahadur Shastri
  3. Morarji Desai
  4. Indira Gandhi
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Correct answer: D. Indira Gandhi

INCOSPAR was replaced by ISRO during Indira Gandhi's government.

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