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Important List of India Space Research Centers

Important List of India Space Research Centers

Important List of India Space Research Centers

Here are the Important List of India Space Research Centers. This is very important topics for all government exams for preparation  UPSC Civil Services, Combined Defence Service (CDS), National Defence Academy (NDA),Railway Recruitment Boards ( RRB), Special Class railway Apprentices (SCRA),Indian Forest services (IFS), Indian Economic services (IES), Bank P.O, Patwari, L.I.C. MBA,MCA, etc entrance tests.

Important List of India Space Research Centers

S.N. Location Space Centre
1 Sriharikota ( Andhra Pradesh ) Satish Dhawan Space Centre
2 Thiruvananthapuram Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre
ISRO Interial Systems Unit
3 Shillong North eastern space application centre
4 Kharagpur Eastern RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre
5 Hyderabad NRSA or NRSC – national remote sensing agency /centre
6 Tirupati NMRF-National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
7 New Delhi DOS branch secretariat
ISRO branch office
Delhi earth station
8 Port Blair Down range station
9 Kerala ALUVA – Ammonium perchlorate experiment plant
10 Mahendra Giri Liquid Propulsion Test Facilities
11 Dehradun Indian Institute of remote sensing
Northern RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre
Lucknow ISTRAC ground station
12 Hassan INSAT master control facility
13 Bangalore Space commission
HQ –ISRO
INSAT programme office
NNRMS secretariat- National Natural Resources Management System
ANTRIX corporation
ISTRAC-ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network
ISRO satellite centre
Liquid propulsion systems centre
14 Mumbai ISRO Liaison office
15 Nagpur Central RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre
16 Mount Abu Infrared Observatory
17 Ahmedabad Space Application Centre
Physical Research Laboratory
Development & educational communication unit
18 Jodhpur Western RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre
19 Udaipur Solar Observatory
20 Balasore Remote Sensing Centre

Space Research Area Information

  • The first man to enter space – Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
  • The first woman cosmonaut of the world -Velentina Tereshkova
  • The first American astronaut to float in space – Edward White
  • The first space-vehicle to orbit the moon – Luna-10 (U.S.S.R.)
  • The first person in the world to land on the moon – Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Adrin Jr. of U.S.A. Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin. July 21, 1969.
  • The first woman of Indian origin in space – Kalpana Chawla
  • The first space tourist in the world – Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)
  • The first successful moon mission of India– Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008)
  • The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space – Sunita Williams
  • The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts – Columbia (February 1, 2003)
  • The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world – Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002)
  • The first European woman to international Space Station – Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut)
  • The first Indian to go into space – Rakesh Sharma
  • The first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon – Zond-5
  • The first unmanned moon buggy to explore surface of the moon – Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R.)
  • The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto – New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006)
  • he US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist – Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009)

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