{"id":30920,"date":"2018-10-27T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30920"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:58:30","slug":"fifty-years-of-terls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fifty-years-of-terls\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years of TERLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/fifty-years-of-terls\/article22882696.ece\"><b>Fifty years of TERLS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s commitment to the peaceful use of outer space has been a constant<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In news<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) to the UN, which fell on February 2, 2018, ISRO has honoured former employees of TERLS who had contributed to the sounding rocket programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About TERLS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TERLS is an Indian spaceport operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram which is near the southern tip of mainland India<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From TERLS India\u2019s first rocket (US made) Nike-Apache was launched.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the 1960s, TERLS became an international launch station and the sounding rockets launched from here proved instrumental in studying the equatorial electrojet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>TERLS Dedication to the UN<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian space programme received support from the U.S., the USSR, France, the U.K. and West Germany.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often, this was in the form of technical equipment such as telemetry receivers, tracking systems and computers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In return, India offered to dedicate TERLS to the United Nations as a goodwill gesture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consequently, the UN formally sponsored TERLS as an international scientific facility open to all its members.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>India\u2019s commitment to the peaceful use of outer space<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amidst changes in Indian space programme, India\u2019s commitment to the peaceful use of outer space has been a constant<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is highly commendable given that the entire programme advanced on the back of a considerable resource crunch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The space programme in India remains focussed on civilian benefits, using space technology to improve the life of the common man.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This includes the use of satellites to: map and survey crops, assess damage from natural disasters, and bring telemedicine and telecommunication to the remote areas of rural India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years of TERLS Context: India\u2019s commitment to the peaceful use of outer space has been a constant In news To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) to the UN, which fell on February 2, 2018, ISRO has honoured former employees of TERLS who had contributed to&hellip; 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