ISRO Missions and Satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) intends to launch the first in a constellation of seven satellites envisaged for the ambitious Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) project, the Indian counterpart of GPS of the US. IRNSS, which will have a range of applications including personal navigation, will be India's answer to the U.S.-operated GPS, Russia's GLONASS, European Space Agency's under-development Galileo, and China's emerging constellation, Compass. The problem with the existing constellations is that they are controlled by defence agencies in those countries. On completion, IRNSS will have all-weather, round-the-clock coverage over the Indian landmass with an extended coverage of about 1,500 km around it.

Scientists on March 2, 2010 detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the moon's North Pole using data from the Mini-SAR, a radar that flew aboard Chandrayaan-l. The Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) is a payload of NASA.

Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian citizen to travel into space, aboard the Soviet Soyuz T-11 mission in 1984.

Arvi, located near Pune, is home to India's first satellite earth station, established in 1971.

Chandrayaan-1 was India's first lunar probe, launched by ISRO in 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 was launched into space using the PSLV-C11 launch vehicle.

Chandrayaan-1 was launched by the PSLV-C11 rocket on October 22, 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 was the first Indian lunar probe under the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) program, launched in 2008.

INSAT-4CR was a communication satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in September 2007.

ISRO launched 10 satellites (often cited as 9 small satellites plus the primary) in a single mission using the PSLV-C9 launch vehicle in April 2008.

Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian citizen to fly into space in 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos program.

Aryabhata was India's first satellite, launched on April 19, 1975, by the Soviet Union.

EDUSAT (GSAT-3) was India's first satellite dedicated exclusively to the educational sector, launched to provide distance education services.

Himadri is India's first permanent Arctic research station, located at Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway.

In the PSLV-C9 mission, IMS-1 (Indian Microsatellite-1) was a microsatellite, while the others listed (NLS-4, NLS-5, and RUBIN-8A) were nano satellites.