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Space pollutants include various forms of orbital debris, often referred to as space junk, which consists of non-functional man-made objects.

Satellites act as relays in space, receiving signals from Earth stations and retransmitting them to other locations, serving as the primary medium for space communication.

A.  The point closet approach to earth

The point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the earth.

The Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) is located in Sriharikota, which is in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Sriharikota is the primary spaceport of India and is located in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

India's first satellite, Aryabhatta, was launched on April 19, 1975, using a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket from Kapustin Yar.

The Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) was the first rocket launching station established in India, located near Thiruvananthapuram.

The geoid is a shape like the surface of the Earth. The geoid is the shape that the surface of the oceans would take under the influence of Earth's gravitation and rotation alone, in the absence of other influences such as winds and tides.

Geoid means like shaped.

Thumba was chosen because it is located on the geomagnetic equator, which is ideal for studying atmospheric phenomena and conducting sounding rocket experiments.