Top 10 Interesting Facts About ISRO:

Top 10 Interesting Facts About ISRO:

1:Founding father of ISRO:

Vikram Sarabhai is the founding father of ISRO and the first chairman of ISRO.

2:Formation of ISRO:

Indian Space Research Organization (I.S.R.O.) was formed on 15 august 1969 by Vikram Sarabhai. It superseded the erstwhile “Indian National Committee For Space Research” (INCOSPAR) which was established in 1962.

3:Expenditure in the last 40 years:

ISRO’s expenditure in the last 40 years = Half of NASA’s single-year budget.

4:India’s first indigenous satellite launch vehicle:

SLV-3 was India’s first indigenous satellite launch vehicle and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the director of the project. SLV was intended to reach a height of 400 kilometers and carry a payload of 40 kg. It was a four-stage rocket with all solid-propellant motors. The first launch of the SLV took place in Sriharikota on 10 August 1979 and the fourth and final launch of the SLV took place on 17 April 1983.

5:Mars Mission by ISRO:

The Mars Orbiter Mission also called Mangalyaan is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is India's first interplanetary mission and it made it the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency.ISRO’s Mars Mission is the cheapest so far, just 450 crore i.e., RS 12 per km.

6:Reaching Mars in the first attempt:

India (ISRO) is the only one country that has reached Mars in the first attempt.US failed in their first 5 attempts. The Soviet Union failed in its first 8 attempts. China & Russia also failed in their first attempt.

7:Total PSLV launched by ISRO till date:

ISRO has to date launched 46 consecutive successful PSLV Launches. The first successful PSLV was launched on 15 October 1994 and the last one was launched on 22 May 2019.

8:Mission Chandrayan-1:

Chandrayaan-1 was the first Indian lunar probe under the Chandrayaan program. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008 and operated until August 2009. The mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor. India launched the spacecraft using a PSLV-XL rocket on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, at Sriharikota about 80 km north of Chennai. This mission made India the 4th country to host its flag on the moon.

9:ISRO's Geoportal Bhuvan:

Bhuvan is a web mapping service that allows users to explore a 2D/3D representation of the surface of the Earth. The browser is specifically tailored to view India, offering the highest resolution in this region and providing content in four local languages. Apart from visualization, Bhuvan provides timely disaster support services (domestic and international) free satellite data and a products download facility and rich thematic datasets. It also acts as a platform for hosting government data.

10:World Record by ISRO:

ISRO Created a record in Feb 2017, launching 104 satellites in a single mission using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The rocket launched Cartosat-2D and 103 nanosatellites: two from India, one each from Kazakhstan, Israel, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates, along with 96 from the United States of America – 88 Dove satellites and 8 LEMUR satellites. The three Indian satellites launched were Cartosat-2D, INS-1A, and INS-1B. 

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