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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where is the ‘National Remote Sensing Agency’ situated?
A
Dehradun
B
Bangalore
C
Shadnagar
D
Chennai
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -NRSC has a data reception station at Shadnagar near Hyderabad for acquiring data from Indian remote sensing satellites as well as others. NRSC Ground station at Shadnagar acquires Earth Observation data from Indian remote-sensing satellites as well as from different foreign satellites.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prakash Chauhan. Dr Prakash Chauhan (born on 15.05. 1969) obtained his postgraduate degree in Applied Geophysics from University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee) and Ph.

Detailed explanation-3: -IRS-1A, the first of the series of indigenous state-of-art remote sensing satellites, was successfully launched into a polar sun-synchronous orbit on March 17, 1988 from the Soviet Cosmodrome at Baikonur.

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