Which of the followings has been dubbed as India maiden human spaceflight programme?
- A.Mangalyaan II
- B.Gaganyaan
- C.Chandrayaan II
- D.Aditya L-1
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The correct answer is B, Gaganyaan. Gaganyaan is the programme under which the Indian Space Research Organisation is preparing to send Indian astronauts into a low orbit around the Earth in a crew module of its own and bring them back safely. The programme includes uncrewed test flights, a crew escape system and a human rated launch vehicle. Its first flight test of the crew escape system, called TV-D1, took place in October 2023.
Option A, Mangalyaan, is the Mars Orbiter Mission, an uncrewed spacecraft that reached Mars orbit in 2014. Option C, Chandrayaan-2, was an uncrewed Moon mission of 2019 with an orbiter, a lander and a rover. Option D, Aditya-L1, is the solar observatory launched in 2023 to a halo orbit around the Lagrange point L1. None of the three carries a crew, so only Gaganyaan can be the human spaceflight programme.
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Practice Questions
View allIn which year did Captain Rakesh Sharma travel to space in a Soviet space programme?
- A.1981
- B.1982
- C.1983
- D.1984
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Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma flew in April 1984 aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 as part of a joint programme between the Soviet Union and India, and spent about eight days aboard the Salyut 7 space station.
Read the full explanation →The first pico satellite of India is:
- A.INSAT
- B.STUDSAT
- C.GSAT-4
- D.ANUSAT
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STUDSAT, short for Student Satellite, was the first pico satellite built in India. A pico satellite is one that weighs under about one kilogram, and STUDSAT weighed less than that.
Read the full explanation →What is the primary objective of the Chandra Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) payload?
- A.To assess the Moon geological composition
- B.To measure the vertical temperature profile of the lunar regolith
- C.To measure the Moon atmospheric pressure
- D.To study the Moon magnetic field
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ChaSTE was carried on the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3. It has a probe fitted with a set of temperature sensors, which was pushed into the lunar soil to a depth of about ten centimetres near the south polar region.
Read the full explanation →In the year 2021, DRDO launched which satellite by PSLV-C51 to enhance India surveillance capability in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR)?
- A.Satish Dhawan Satellite
- B.Sindhu Netra Satellite
- C.Sindhu Durga Satellite
- D.Sri Shakti Satellite
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Sindhu Netra was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and was placed in orbit in February 2021 by the PSLV-C51 flight, the same flight whose main payload was the Amazonia-1 satellite of Brazil.
Read the full explanation →Aditya-L1, the first Indian solar observatory, was launched by which vehicle?
- A.GSLV Mk II
- B.PSLV-C57
- C.LVM3-M4
- D.SSLV-D2
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Aditya-L1 was launched on 2 September 2023 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota by the PSLV-C57 flight, which used the most powerful version of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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