The Mars Orbiter Mission of India, popularly called Mangalyaan, was launched by which vehicle?
- A.GSLV Mark Two
- B.PSLV C25
- C.LVM3 M4
- D.PSLV C57
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, PSLV C25. The Mars Orbiter Mission lifted off on 5 November 2013 on this flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. Because the rocket could not throw the spacecraft towards Mars directly, the craft was placed in an elliptical orbit around the Earth and raised in stages by repeated burns of its own engine before departing for Mars, a method that saved a great deal of fuel and cost.
Option A, the GSLV Mark Two, was not used for this mission. Option C, LVM3 M4, is the flight that carried Chandrayaan 3 in 2023. Option D, PSLV C57, carried Aditya L1, the solar observatory, on 2 September 2023, and is placed here because it belongs to the same rocket family. The spacecraft entered Mars orbit on 24 September 2014.
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Practice Questions
View allChandrayaan 1, India's first mission to the Moon, was launched in which year?
- A.2005
- B.2008
- C.2013
- D.2019
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Chandrayaan 1 was launched on 22 October 2008 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota and reached lunar orbit within a fortnight.
Read the full explanation →Which launch vehicle carried Chandrayaan 1 into orbit?
- A.PSLV C11
- B.GSLV Mark Three
- C.SLV 3
- D.LVM3 M4
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The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its extended configuration carried Chandrayaan 1 on 22 October 2008. The same family of rockets, in the C25 flight, later carried the Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013, which shows how much the Indian space programme achieved with a medium lift vehicle.
Read the full explanation →The presence of water molecules on the Moon was confirmed using data from which instrument carried by Chandrayaan 1?
- A.Moon Impact Probe
- B.Moon Mineralogy Mapper
- C.Orbiter High Resolution Camera
- D.Lyman Alpha Photometer
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This imaging spectrometer, supplied by the United States space agency and flown on the Indian orbiter, measured how sunlight reflected from the lunar surface and found the absorption signature of water molecules and hydroxyl, especially towards the poles.
Read the full explanation →Chandrayaan 2 was launched in July 2019 on which rocket?
- A.PSLV C25
- B.GSLV Mark Three
- C.ASLV
- D.PSLV C11
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Chandrayaan 2 lifted off on 22 July 2019 on the heaviest Indian rocket then flying, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark Three, which has since been renamed LVM3.
Read the full explanation →What are the names of the lander and the rover of the Chandrayaan missions?
- A.Aryabhata and Bhaskara
- B.Vikram and Pragyan
- C.Rohini and Apple
- D.Aditya and Mangal
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The lander is named Vikram after Vikram Sarabhai, the physicist who founded the Indian space programme and is called its father.
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