Static Awareness Series will help you to enlighten and excel in General Awareness Section for all Banking and Insurance Exams. Banking Exams are enlarging their syllabus for General Awareness section day by day. So, in order to cope with the new pattern and to master in this section we need to widen our scope of information. Today we will discuss about the Nuclear & Space research centers in India.
List of Important Nuclear & Space Research Centers in India:
| S.No. | Nuclear and Space Research Centers | Location | Year of Establishment |
| 1. | India Rare Earths Limited | Aluva (Alwaye), Kerala | 1950 |
| 2. | Uranium Corporation of India | Jadugoda, Jharkhand | 1967 |
| 3. | Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) | Mumbai | 1948 |
| 4. | Electronics Corporation of India | Hyderabad | 1967 |
| 5. | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) | Trombay (Mumbai) | 1957 |
| 6. | Radio Astronomy Centre | Udhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu | 1968 |
| 7. | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Mumbai | 1945 |
| 8. | Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics | Kolkata | 1949 |
| 9. | Nuclear Fuel Complex | Hyderabad | 1971 |
| 10. | Nuclear Power Complex | Mumbai | |
| 11. | Centre of Earth Science’s studies | Thiruvananthapuram (Trivendrum), Kerala | 1978 |
| 12. | Physical Research Laboratory | Ahmedabad | 1947 |
| 13. | Space Commission | Bengaluru (Bangalore) | |
| 14. | Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre | Thiruvananthapuram | 1963 |
| 15. | Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | Bengaluru (Bangalore) | 1969 |
| 16. | Space Application Centre | Ahmedabad | 1972 |
| 17. | Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station | Thumba (Kerala) | 1962 |
| 18. | Indian Scientific Satellite Project | Bengaluru (Bangalore) | 1972 |
| 19. | College of Satellite Communication Technology | Ahmedabad | |
| 20. | Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics | Kolkata | 1949 |
Some Interesting Facts:-
Vikram Sarabhai- Vikram Sarabhai was the main person behind India’s first satellite Aryabhata.
- Very few people know that, it was Vikram Sarabhai’s efforts that brought television to India with his consistent communication with NASA.
- He was the main person behind the genesis of Operations Research Group (ORG) which was the first market research organization in India.
- V ikram Sarabhai convinced the Indian government to set up Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
- The Budget of ISRO is much less than many other countries space organizations, still ISRO is doing a good job! ISRO made itself gleam by creating the cheapest mission to mars. Its Mars Orbiter Mission cost about ₹450 Crore (US$73 million), with an average of ₹12/km travelled.
- ISRO has also developed various satellites to monitor the weather situation around the country. Its INSAT-3DR is an advanced meteorological (weather observation) satellite to provide the necessary inputs required for accurate weather forecasting.
- BARC handles all facets of nuclear power generation.
- Bhabha got recognition initially after he devised the correct expression for scattering electrons, by the process he devised, called Bhabha scattering.
- BARC designed India’s first pressurized water reactor of 80mw capacity at Kalpakkam
- The organization played a significant role in making India the 6th country in the world to have a nuclear submarine.
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