Indians Satellites & Important Key Facts

 🟢 INDIA'S SATELLITE & IMPORTANT KEY FACTS

⚫️ Chandrayaan-1

🔸Launch date : 22 October 2008

🔸Rocket : PSLV-XL C11

🔸Launch site : Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram

🔸Project Director : Dr M Annadurai

🔸Chandrayaan-1, India's first moon mission

🔵 Chandrayaan-2

🔸Launch date : 22 July 2019

🔸Rocket : GSLV Mark III M1

🔸Mission Director : Ritu Karidhal

🔸Project Director : Muthayya Vanitha

🔸Lander name : Vikram

🔸Rover name : Praygan

🔸Launch site : Satish Dhawan Space Centre Andhra Pradesh

🔸Chandrayaan-2, India's second moon mission

🔸Total weight of the Chandrayaan-2 is 3,850 kg

🔸Total cost of the mission : US$141 million ( Rs 978 crore)

🔴 Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan

🔸Launch date : 5 November 2013

🔸Rocket : PSLV-XL C25

🔸Launch site : Satish Dhawan space centre Andhra Pradesh

🔷 Mangalyaan-2 : ISRO planned to launch this mission by 2025

🔷 Gaganyaan Mission : ISRO planned to be launched on GSLV Mk III in December 2021

💠 Aryabhata India's first satellites Launched on 19 April 1975

💠 GSAT-1 India's first commercial satellite

💠 SLV-3 was India's first experimental satellite launch vehicle,

💠 Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment, (APPLE) first communication satellite in India 19 June 1981

💠 Udupi Ramachandra Rao : satellite Man of India

💠 Rakesh Sharma : first Indian astronaut

💠 Kalpana Chawla : first woman astronaut of India

💠 Rohini is a series of satellites launched by the ISRO on 1980