Which was the first artificial satellite launched into space?
a) Explorer 1
b) Sputnik 1
c) Vanguard 1
d) Skylab
Which country launched the first artificial satellite?
a) USA
b) China
c) Soviet Union
d) India
Which space agency launched the Hubble Space Telescope?
a) ESA
b) NASA
c) ISRO
d) CNSA
Which is the largest artificial satellite currently orbiting Earth?
a) Hubble Space Telescope
b) Skylab
c) Tiangong
d) International Space Station (ISS)
What was the first successful interplanetary mission?
a) Mariner 2
b) Voyager 1
c) Galileo
d) Pioneer 10
Which was the first spacecraft to land on another planet?
a) Viking 1
b) Mariner 9
c) Venera 7
d) Galileo
Which planet was the first to be visited by a space probe?
a) Mars
b) Jupiter
c) Venus
d) Mercury
Which space telescope was launched to find exoplanets?
a) Hubble Space Telescope
b) Kepler Space Telescope
c) Chandra X-ray Observatory
d) James Webb Space Telescope
Which space mission first landed humans on the Moon?
a) Apollo 10
b) Apollo 11
c) Apollo 12
d) Apollo 13
Which spacecraft was the first to fly past Pluto?
a) Voyager 1
b) New Horizons
c) Pioneer 10
d) Cassini
Which spacecraft was the first to leave the solar system?
a) Voyager 1
b) Voyager 2
c) Pioneer 10
d) New Horizons
Which is the most distant human-made object from Earth?
a) New Horizons
b) Voyager 1
c) Voyager 2
d) Pioneer 11
Which space agency operates the Mars rover Perseverance?
a) ESA
b) NASA
c) ISRO
d) CNSA
Which is the first space probe to orbit an asteroid?
a) Hayabusa 2
b) OSIRIS-REx
c) Dawn
d) Rosetta
Which satellite provides global positioning services?
a) Hubble
b) GPS
c) Sputnik
d) GOES
Which was the first space station?
a) Skylab
b) Mir
c) Tiangong
d) Salyut 1
Which satellite monitors Earth’s climate and weather patterns?
a) GOES
b) Galileo
c) Kepler
d) Chandra
Which country launched the first satellite into geostationary orbit?
a) USA
b) Soviet Union
c) China
d) France
What is the primary purpose of communication satellites?
a) Weather monitoring
b) Television and internet broadcasting
c) Space exploration
d) GPS navigation
Which space mission aims to bring samples from Mars back to Earth?
a) Artemis
b) Perseverance
c) Mars Sample Return
d) ExoMars
Which spacecraft studied Saturn and its moons before plunging into the planet?
a) Galileo
b) Cassini
c) Juno
d) New Horizons
Which satellite provides high-resolution images of Earth’s surface?
a) Landsat
b) Sputnik
c) Voyager
d) Chandra
Which space agency operates the Chandrayaan missions?
a) NASA
b) ESA
c) ISRO
d) CNSA
Which was the first Mars rover to successfully land and operate?
a) Curiosity
b) Opportunity
c) Sojourner
d) Spirit
Which is the most powerful space telescope ever launched?
a) Hubble Space Telescope
b) Chandra X-ray Observatory
c) James Webb Space Telescope
d) Spitzer Space Telescope
Which satellite system is operated by the European Union for navigation?
a) GPS
b) GLONASS
c) Galileo
d) Beidou
Which is the first probe to land on a comet?
a) Hayabusa 2
b) Rosetta
c) OSIRIS-REx
d) Dawn
Which satellite was launched to study cosmic microwave background radiation?
a) COBE
b) Hubble
c) Voyager 1
d) Cassini
Which country operates the BeiDou satellite navigation system?
a) USA
b) Russia
c) China
d) Japan
