Svalbard Mission – India & Norway Space Mission
Svalbard Mission : A Rohini RH-300 Mk-II sounding rocket launched from Svalbard, Norway, on November 20, 1997, inaugurating a new rocket launch facility there.
About Rohini 
A single-stage sounding rocket, the Rh-300 is based on the French Belier rocket engine.
Its launch height is 100 kilometers.
The maximum launch altitude of one model, the RH-300 Mk-II, is 116 kilometers.
The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, an ISRO facility, created the RH-300 Mk-II as a member of the Rohini family of sounding rockets.
The Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) changed the name of the RH-300 Mk-II to Isbjorn-1, which means “Polar Bear-I.
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About Sounding Rockets
Sounding rockets are one or two stage solid propellant rockets used for probing the upper atmospheric regions and for space research. They also serve as easily affordable platforms to test or prove prototypes of new components or subsystems intended for use in launch vehicles and satellites.
Svalbard Mission
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