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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) turns 40 tomorrow. It is the implementing agency of the Indian Space Programme. At its 40th anniversary, it has a lot to look back on and lots more to look forward to. The agency was formed as the Indian National Committee for Space Research under the leadership of Vikram Sarabhai in 1962. The group was helped and supported under the Department of Atomic Energy by its then Secretary, Dr Homi J Bhaba. The group taken from the talent pool of India's Nuclear Energy Programme delivered hardly one year later on November 21, 1963 when it held the first successful launch of a Nike-Apache sounding rocket from the Thumba Equatorial Launching Station (TERLS) in Thumba, Kerala. Beginning with a programme studying cosmic rays, ionosphere studies, sounding rocket studies India jumped to the Aryabhata in 1975, India's first indigenously developed satellite for studying X....
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Pradeep Mohandas is a Mumbai based space enthusiast. He is an under-graduate student of mechanical engineering in Mumbai University. He was the co-founder of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, India. He is currently Director, Space Sciences Project with Planetary Society, India.
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