Arrange the following milestones in the field of Indian Space Programme in chronological order:
A. Mars Orbiter Mission onboard (Mangalyaan)
B. National Remote Sensing Agency established (NRSA)
C. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre established (VSSC)
D. Chandrayaan-I launched
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → C, B, D, A
The four milestones span about forty years of the Indian space programme:
C. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) — the rocket centre at Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram, where launches began in 1963, was named VSSC in 1972, in honour of Vikram Sarabhai, who died in December 1971.
B. National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) — set up at Hyderabad in 1974 to use satellite and aerial images for mapping natural resources; it became the National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO in 2008.
D. Chandrayaan-I — India’s first mission to the Moon, launched on 22 October 2008 from Sriharikota.
A. Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) — launched on 5 November 2013; it reached Mars orbit in September 2014, making India the first country to do so in its first attempt.