The first experimental satellite launched by India in 1975 is ____________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Aryabhatta
Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, was launched on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union, on a Soviet rocket. It was an experimental satellite built by ISRO and named after the 5th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata.
The Rohini satellites (from 1980) were the first launched on India’s own rocket, the SLV-3, and Bhaskara II (1981) was an earth-observation satellite.