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Start date End date Details Chandrayaan programme: Chandrayaan-1: 22 October 2008 28 August 2009 Chandrayaan 1 as India's first lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation on 22 October 2008, and was operated until August 2009. The mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor.
It is the main satellite launch centre for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is located in Sriharikota , Andhra Pradesh , 80 km (50 mi) north of Chennai . Originally called Sriharikota Range [ 1 ] (SHAR), an acronym that ISRO has retained to the present day.
To date, ISRO has developed most of the technologies needed, such as the crew module and crew escape system, space food, and life support systems. The project would cost less than ₹ 100 billion (US$1.3 billion) and would include sending two or three Indians to space, at an altitude of 300–400 km (190–250 mi), for at least seven days ...
Satish Dhawan is known for his work on fluid dynamics and his tenure as longest serving chief of ISRO. His era marked with India attaining orbital launch capability in 1980 for the first time and start of INSAT program which became base for further development of spacecraft technologies. 4 U. R. Rao (1932–2017) 1984: 1994: 10 years [9] [10]
The Government of India constituted the Space Commission and established the Department of Space (DoS) in 1972 and brought ISRO under DoS management on 1 June 1972. On 15 January 2022 S. Somanath succeeded Kailasavadivoo Sivan as the Secretary (Space) and ex-officio chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Space Commission. [ 2 ]
Date Mission achievements Country/organization Mission name Ref(s). 4 October 1957: First artificial satellite. First human-made signals from space. USSR Sputnik 1: 3 November 1957: First mammal in orbit, the dog Laika. USSR Sputnik 2: 31 January 1958: Confirmed existence of the Van Allen radiation belt. USA Explorer 1: 17 March 1958
Date / time Rocket, Configuration Launch site Payload Payload mass Orbit User Launch Outcome C10 21 January 2008 03:45 PSLV-CA First: TecSAR: 295 kg Success ISRO's second commercial launch (foreign satellite as the main payload). [61] [62] C9 28 April 2008 03:53 PSLV-CA Second: Cartosat-2A IMS-1/TWSAT RUBIN-8 CanX-6/NTS CanX-2 CUTE-1.7 + APD II ...
The Mars Orbiter Mission, also called "Mangalyaan", [26] was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). [27] [28] [29] It is India's first interplanetary mission, [30] making ISRO the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. [31]