Consider the following pairs:   ISRO Centres Location A  Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)  Trivandrum  (Kerala) B  UR Rao Satellite Centre  (URSC)  Bengaluru  (Karnataka) C  National Remote Sensing  Centre (NRSC)  Dehradun  (Uttarakhand) D  Indian Institute of Remote  Sensing (IIRS)  Hyderabad  (Telangana) Which of the above pairs are correctly matched? 

Consider the following pairs:   ISRO Centres Location A  Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)  Trivandrum  (Kerala) B  UR Rao Satellite Centre  (URSC)  Bengaluru  (Karnataka) C  National Remote Sensing  Centre (NRSC)  Dehradun  (Uttarakhand) D  Indian Institute of Remote  Sensing (IIRS)  Hyderabad  (Telangana) Which of the above pairs are correctly matched?  Correct Answer A & B only

The correct answer is A & B only.

Key Points

The table below is correctly matched:

ISRO Centers Location
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Trivandrum
 (Kerala)
UR Rao Satellite Centre
 (URSC)
Bengaluru
 (Karnataka)
National Remote Sensing
Centre (NRSC)
Hyderabad, Telangana
Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing (IIRS)
Dehradun
 (Uttarakhand)

Additional Information 

  • The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation, focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India's satellite programme. It is located in Trivandrum, in the Indian state of Kerala. It was established in 1963.
  • The UR Rao Satellite Centre, formerly ISRO Satellite Centre is an Indian Space Research Organisation centre for the design, development, and construction of Indian satellites. It was established in the year of 1972 as Indian Scientific Satellite Project in Peenya Industrial Estates of Bengaluru.
  • National Remote Sensing Centre, or NRSC, located in Hyderabad, Telangana is one of the centres of the Indian Space Research Organisation. NRSC manages data from aerial and satellite sources.
  • The Indian Institute of Remote Sensing is a premier institute for research, located in Dehradun, Uttrakhand, higher education and training in the field of Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics and GPS Technology for Natural Resources, Environmental and Disaster Management under the Indian Department of Space, which was established in the year 1966.

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