Baikonur Cosmodrome

A cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Three of India's early remote-sensing satellites, IRS-1A, IRS-1B and IRS-1C, were launched from here.

Role

Baikonur is a launch site in Kazakhstan. The public satellite catalogue calls it the Tyuratam Missile and Space Center, also known as Baikonur Cosmodrome.

What launched here

Three Indian satellites were launched from Baikonur. All three belong to the Indian Remote Sensing programme.

• IRS-1A on a Vostok rocket, 17 March 1988
• IRS-1B on a Vostok rocket, 29 August 1991
• IRS-1C on a Molniya rocket, 28 December 1995

Significance

IRS-1A, launched from Baikonur in 1988, was the first of ISRO's operational remote-sensing satellites.

Sources

1. SATCAT launch sites — CelesTrak
2. Satellite catalogue (SATCAT) search — CelesTrak
3. Spacecraft missions — ISRO
4. Earth observation satellites — ISRO