The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS- IA was launched in ___________.

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IRS-1A was the first remote sensing mission undertaken by the ISRO. It was successfully launched unto a polar sun-synchronous orbit on March 17, 1988, from the Soviet Cosmodrome at Baikonur. It was a part- operational, part-experimental mission to develop Indian expertise in staellite imagery.

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