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It was renamed in honour of Vikram Sarabhai, often regarded as the father of the Indian space program. H.G.S. Murthy was appointed as the first director of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. [3] The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is one of the main research and development establishments within ISRO.
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) is an Indian rocket launching site established on 21 November 1963. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), it is located in Thumba , Thiruvananthapuram , which is near the southwestern tip of mainland India, very close to Earth's magnetic equator .
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (Thumba Equatorial), Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala 8°31′53″N 76°52′08″E / 8.5314°N 76.8690°E / 8.5314; 76.8690 ( Vikram Sarabhai Space 1962–
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the launch of space infrastructure projects at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), in Thiruvananthapuram, India on February 27, 2024 - ANI/Reuters
ISRO has said its Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre had successfully tested systems for stabilising the crew module and safely reducing its velocity during re-entry. Earlier this year, the deputy ...
The committee took over the responsibilities of the Department of Atomic Energy in space science and research. The then director of the DAE, Homi Bhabha, was instrumental in creation of the committee. INCOSPAR decided to set up Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) at Thumba on the southern tip of India.
A team of 750 engineers at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, National Aeronautical Laboratory, and Indian Institute of Science worked on the design and development of RLV-TD and the associated rocket. RLV-TD underwent 120 hours of wind tunnel , 5,000 hours of computational fluid dynamics and 1,100 runs of flight simulation tests.
Thumba became well-known to the outsiders after the establishment of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), which was the first of that kind in India. TERLS was founded in Thumba in 1962 in the district of Trivandrum on the southern tip of India very close to Earth's magnetic equator to launch sounding rockets.TERLS was dedicated ...