Year End Review 2017: Ministry of Space

Year End Review- Department of Space

Question: On which date 104 satellites were launched successfully in a single launch by ISRO?
(a) February 14, 2017
(b) February 15, 2017
(c) February 16, 2017
(d) February 17, 2017
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:

  • On December 26, 2017, Year End Review, 2017 was released by the Department of Space.
  • The main facts related to this review are as follows:
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched 104 satellites, in a single launch, onboard PSLV-C37 on February 15, 2017.
  • 31 satellites were also launched, in a single launch, on-board PSLV-C38 on June 23, 2017.
  • These satellites include – Two Indian Cartosat-2 series satellites, two Indian Nano-Satellites, one Nano satellite from Indian University and 130 foreign satellites from 19 countries.
  • These 19 countries were Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UAE, UK and USA.
  • The Cartosat-2 series satellites are placed in a sun synchronous orbit with a designed mission life of 5 years.
  • The main objective of these satellites is to provide high resolution images of earth’s surface at sub-meter resolution (Black & White image) and at 2 meter resolution (4-band coloured image).
  • India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-II (GSLV-F09) successfully launched the 2230 kg South Asia Satellite (GSAT-9) into its planned Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on May 05, 2017.
  • The launch of GSLV was its eleventh and took place from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota, the spaceport of India.
  • This was the fourth consecutive success achieved by GSLV carrying indigenously developed Cryogenic Upper Stage.
  • The first developmental flight (GSLV MkIII-D1) of India’s heavy lift launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III was successfully conducted on June 05, 2017 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota with the launch of GSAT-19 satellite.
  • This was the first orbital mission of GSLV MkIII which was mainly intended to evaluate the vehicle performance including that of its fully indigenous cryogenic upper stage during the flight.
  • Weighing 3136 kg at lift-off, GSAT-19 became the heaviest satellite launched from the Indian soil.
  • On June 29, 2017, GSAT-17 became India’s third communication satellite to successfully reach orbit in two months. GSAT-17 was launched by the European Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana.
  • A two-day International Seminar on Indian Space Programme: ‘Trends and Opportunities for Industry’ was organized in New Delhi on November 20-21, 2017.
  • AstroSat, India’s multi-wavelength space telescope completed two years in orbit during the year and has successfully accomplished the difficult task of measuring X-ray polarisation.
  • An exhibition highlighting the achievements of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was inaugurated by the MoS Dr Jitendra Singh, in Surat, Gujarat on September 29, 2017.
  • Mars Orbiter Mission successfully completed three years in its orbit on September 24, 2017, surviving well beyond its designed mission life of six months.
  • SRO and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/NASA are jointly working on the development of Dual Frequency (L&S band) Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Satellite named as NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR).

Reference:
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