Question

Kalpana I satellite is related to education.
(A) True
(B) False

Answer 1

This question is purely based on facts. So, to find out whether the statement is true or false, we need to know about Kalpana I satellite. Then only we can conclude with the correct answer of this statement.

Complete answer:
We need to know about this satellite first.
Kalpana I satellite is an artificial satellite, which was used for the Chandrayaan lunar orbiter mission of 2008.
As from step one, we can see that Kalpana I was not a satellite used for education, so we can conclude that the given statement is incorrect.

Hence, option (B), i.e. False is the correct choice for this question.

Note: Kalpana I was the first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by Indian Space Research Organisation. It used the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on 12 September 2002. The satellite has three-axis stabilized and is powered by solar panels. It gets up to 550 watts of power. It was known as MetSat-1 but on February 5, 2003, it was renamed to Kalpana I by the then Prime Minister of India, Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in the memory of Kalpana Chawla- a NASA astronaut who perished in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kalpana I is ISRO’s first dedicated GEO weather satellite project built by ISRO. So far meteorological services have been combined with telecommunication and television services in the INSAT series. This satellite is developed out of a small 1-1000 bus made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic light weight structure.