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New Delhi: Agiant rocket rose from India's Sriharikota island spaceport on Friday and ferried the Chandrayaan- 3 spacecraft into an orbit around the Earth to start a 40-day journey, intended to climax with a soft landing near the lunar south pole.

The 43m tall Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) rocket, more than half the height of the 72m Qutb Minar, 4blasted off at 2:35 p.m., spitting orange-white flames and smoke as it climbed into a blue sky and released the spacecraft 16 minutes later 170 km above the Earth.

"Our dear LVM3 has put the spacecraft into its precise orbit around Earth-170 km by 36,500 km was its intended orbit and it is precisely there." said S. Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), who tracked the launch from the Sriharikota control centre.

Friday's launch-the seventh successful mission of the LVM3 since its maiden flight in 2014-will bolster confidence in the reliability of the home grown rocket that ISRO also plans to use for its planned human spaceflight mission, officials said.

(Taken from a newspaper report published in The Telegraph on 15th July, 2023)

A. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences: 1x3=3

(1) The LVM3 rocket was launched at-

(i) 04.30 p.m.

(ii) 07.20 p.m.

(iii) 02.51 p.m

(iv) 02.35 p.m.

(2) The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft will land on the moon after-

(i) 16 days

(ii) 40 days

 (iii) 43 days

 (iv) 72 days

(3) The first flight of the LVM3 rocket took place in-

(a) 2004 (b) 2007 (c) 2014 (d) 2023

B. Write 'T' for the true and 'F' for the false statements: 1x3=3

(i) The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft will land on the Moon's south pole.

 (ii) The LVM3 rocket released the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft at 02.51 a.m.

(iii) ISRO is planning to use the LVM3 rocket for its planned human spaceflight mission.

C. . Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

(1) What is the full form of 'LVM3'? Is it a foreign rocket?

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(2) Who is S.Somanath? From where did he track the launch of the LVM3 rocket?

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3).Where from did the Agiant rocket rise?

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4.What is the full form of ISRO?

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