{"id":42227,"date":"2025-04-20T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=42227"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:23:38","slug":"aryabhata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/aryabhata\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryabhata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Aryabhata Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>50 Years Since the Launch of Aryabhata \u2013 India\u2019s First Satellite<\/p>\n<h2>About Aryabhata<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aryabhata<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0<strong>India\u2019s first indigenously-built satellite<\/strong>, named after the\u00a0<strong>ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata<\/strong>, who lived in the\u00a0<strong>5th century CE<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was launched on\u00a0<strong>April 19, 1975<\/strong>, from\u00a0<strong>Kapustin Yar<\/strong>, a Soviet launch site, with the help of the\u00a0<strong>Soviet Union<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>By launching Aryabhata,\u00a0<strong>India joined an elite club of 11 countries<\/strong>\u00a0capable of sending satellites into orbit, including the\u00a0<strong>USA, USSR, UK, France, China, West Germany, Australia, Canada, Japan,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Italy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Aryabhata was designed to conduct experiments in\u00a0<strong>solar physics<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>X-ray astronomy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Although the experiments faced a\u00a0<strong>power failure<\/strong>\u00a0after\u00a0<strong>five days<\/strong>, Aryabhata successfully made\u00a0<strong>initial X-ray observations<\/strong>\u00a0and continued\u00a0<strong>transmitting data for a few more days<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Aryabhata eventually\u00a0<strong>re-entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>February 10, 1992<\/strong>, giving it an\u00a0<strong>orbital lifespan of nearly 17 years<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite was unnamed until shortly before the launch.\u00a0<strong>Prime Minister Indira Gandhi<\/strong>\u00a0selected\u00a0<strong>\u2018Aryabhata\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0from a shortlist that included\u00a0<strong>\u2018Mitra\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>\u2018Jawahar\u2019<\/strong>, reflecting cultural and diplomatic values.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s Posts and Telegraphs Department issued a special commemorative postal stamp within hours of the launch.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Soviet Union<\/strong>\u00a0issued its own\u00a0<strong>Aryabhata commemorative stamp<\/strong>\u00a0in 1976, recognising the spirit of\u00a0<strong>scientific cooperation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-9ao8nt\">\n<div class=\"ck-content\">\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/children\/50-years-since-the-launch-of-aryabhata\/article69435090.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryabhata was India\u2019s first indigenously-built satellite, named after the ancient Indian mathematician &#038; astronomer Aryabhata, who lived in the 5th century CE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":42228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[197,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-42227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-aryabhata","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}