Correct Answer - Option 3 : C
The Correct Answer is "C".
Explanation :
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Aryabhata was India's first satellite, named after the famous Indian astronomer.
- It was launched on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar, a Russian rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast using a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle.
- It was built by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
- The launch came from an agreement between India and the Soviet Union directed by UR Rao and signed in 1972.
- It allowed the USSR to use Indian ports for tracking ships and launching vessels in return for launching various different Indian satellites.
- It was named after the 5th-century astronomer and mathematician from India by the same name.
- The satellite's image appeared on the reverse of Indian two rupee banknotes between 1976 and 1997.
- The Indian satellite program began to take shape in the early 1970s, although local scientists had long dreamed of an indigenous Indian program since the time of Sputnik.
- The Indian Space Research Organisation focuses on building indigenous satellites.
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Vikram Sarabhai, the ISRO founder and a renowned physicist who also had a role in the development of India’s nuclear industry, appointed a team of 25 engineers and researchers at the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad.