Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station
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Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station is India’s historic coastal rocket launch site near Thiruvananthapuram, renowned as the cradle of the Indian space program and early sounding rocket missions.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch site
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sounding rocket launch site ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | TERLS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Vikram Sarabhai
NERFINISHED
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early Indian space scientists ⓘ |
| category |
research infrastructure in India
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spaceport ⓘ |
| cityDistrict | Thiruvananthapuram district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coast | Arabian Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| environment | coastal ⓘ |
| feature | equatorial location ⓘ |
| focus | scientific research rather than orbital launches ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
payload integration facilities
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sounding rocket launch pads ⓘ tracking and telemetry facilities ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfLaunchVehicle | sounding rockets ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
early base of operations for ISRO
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site of India’s first sounding rocket launches ⓘ |
| latitudeApprox | near 8 degrees north ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kerala
NERFINISHED
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Thumba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Thiruvananthapuram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Arabian Sea coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Thiruvananthapuram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early international cooperative rocket experiments
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equatorial launch conditions for scientific payloads ⓘ |
| operator |
ISRO
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Indian Space Research Organisation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of India ⓘ |
| partOf | Indian space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | sounding rocket launches ⓘ |
| region | southern India ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Indian sounding rocket program
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Satish Dhawan Space Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance | cradle of the Indian space program ⓘ |
| state | Kerala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ionospheric studies
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meteorological experiments ⓘ space science experiments ⓘ upper atmosphere research ⓘ |
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