ISRO is the
very known name for those, who know the great works have been done by this
organization for the mankind to the countrymen and for the nation. ISRO, the
“Indian Space Research Organization” is the space agency of
the Indian government, headquartered in the city of Bangalore. ISRO
was formed on 15 august, 1969 at the day of Indian Independence day by Dr. Vikram
Sarabhai. Since then ISRO travelled a very long distance in the field of space
technology indigenously and gave a lot of moments of proud to all the Indians
with it’s world class technologies and achievements.
With the
motto line "harness space technology for national development" ISRO
is serving India and world.
Let know
some facts about ISRO:
PROUD FACTS ISRO :
PROUD FACTS ISRO :
1. ISRO was established 8 years after Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) . ISRO till date has launched 65 satellites in comparison to Pakistan 2 satellites.
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| ISRO's Satellite launching. source: ISRO 2. SLV-3 was India’s first indigenous satellite launch vehicle and Sir A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the director of the project. |
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| APJ Abdul Kalam at ISRO source :twitter.com |
3. ISRO is one of the six space agencies in the world which has the capability to launch satellites from its own land.
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| Top six space agencies in the world. source : |
4. Apart from its 65 own satellites, ISRO has launched 57 satellites for 21 different countries including USA, Australia, Newzeland and many more. ISRO is known for its very cheap space missions thats why very popular in the world space community.
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| Number of ISRO's foreign satellites source: ISRO |
5. Chandrayaan-1 was India’s first unmanned lunar probe which successfully entered the lunar orbit in and joining the elite group among other nations. Chandrayan-1 (First loonar mission of India) discovered water on Moon.
Image from Chandrayan
source: wikimedia
source: wikimedia
6. Bhuvan is a web-based 3D satellite imagery tool developed by ISRO and it works like like Google Earth, it can be used with PC or mobile app. This is the "Google Earth of India".
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| View of Bhuvan app on mobile and pc. source: techtreme.com |
7. When most of the countries depends on USA based GPS system for their navigational purpose, India has successfully launched its own navigational satellites, IRNSS.
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| IRNSS "Indian GPS" source:times of India |
8. ISRO made India is the only one country who has reached to the MARS in its very first attempt !. And that also in just 400 crores which is very cheap mission for Mars comparison to others, it was a record cost of $74 million.
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| Mars mission ( Mangalyan) source: mail.uk |
US failed in their first 5 attempts. Soviet Union failed in their first 8 attempts. China & Russia also failed in their first attempt.
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| Mars missions source: 4.bp.blogspot.com |
9. ISRO have already spent about $1.6 billion for the past launches and is planning to spend about $1.34 billion for 2013 for their other space programs.
10. You can’t believe ISRO’s last 40 years expenditure is equivalent to NASA’s single year budget.
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| ISRO And NASA source: topyaps.com |
- INTRESTING FACTS ISRO
1. During the 1980s, satellites were transported on bicycles and bullock carts.The first rocket launched by ISRO was transported on an old jeep and a faulty crane.
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| Apple satellite on bullockart in 1980 source: linkedin |
2. ISRO’s Mars mission is the cheapest so Mars mission , where the project cost were just Rs. 450 crore, we can say Rs. 12 per km, equivalent to Auto fare.
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| Mangalyan cost comparison source: scribblelive.com |
3. Once the St Mary Magdalene Church in Thiruvananthapuram was considered the ideal location for ISRO’s work place.
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| St. Mary Magdelen Church source : the hindu |
4. ISRO’s budget is just 0.34% of central government of India expenditure and 0.08% of India’s GDP.
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| Budge of ISRO source: signicent.org |
5. ISRO is also credited for having the most number of bachelors in any Scientific organization which shows the great dedication of these scientists towards towards this organization.
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| Scientist in ISRO source: rt.com |
