write about isro The Beginning
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Though India today is considered as one of the prominent
countries conducting many space activities, the Indian space
programme began in a modest way with the formation of the
Indian National Committee on Space Research by the Government
of India in1962. The programme formally began on 21 November
1963 with the launch of a 28-feet long American ‘Nike- Apache’
Sounding Rocket from Thumba, near Thiruvananthapuram.
It carried a small French payload (scientific instrument) to study the winds in the
upper atmosphere. Sounding
rockets are small research
rockets that carry instruments
to study upper atmosphere
and space. They cannot
launch satellites.
Nearly 50 years later,
on 9 September 2012, India
celebrated its 100th space
mission. That historic mission
was performed by India’s
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV-C21) which launched
a French and a Japanese
satellite, together weighing
750 kg very accurately into
the required orbit. This
shows as to how far India
has travelled in space and
has attained mastery over
space technology.
During the 1960s, India
conducted space research
mostly through sounding
rockets. But the country
also established a ground
station to conduct various
useful experiments using
communication satellites.
ISRO built India's first satellite, Aryabhata, which was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975. It was named after the mathematician Aryabhata. In 1980, Rohini became the first satellite to be placed in orbit by an Indian-made launch vehicle, SLV-3.
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Indian Space Research Organisation.