7 Historic Space Missions Of ISRO

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4 July 2024

The Indian Space Research  Organisation (ISRO) was founded on August 15, 1969, under the leadership of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, often referred to as the father of the Indian space

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Here's a look at India's landmark space missions

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Aryabhata, 1975: Arybhata spacecraft was India's first satellite. It was completely designed and fabricated in India and launched by a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket on April 19, 1975

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Indian National Satelliete (INSAT), 1983: INSAT was commissioned in 1983 and its is the largest domestic communication system in the Asia Pacific Region

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Chandrayaan 1 was India's first mission to the Moon. It was launched in October 2008 with a planned mission life of two years

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Mangalyaan, 2014: Mangalyaan, or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), was India's maiden mission to Mars. The ISRO launched the spacecraft on November 5, 2013, and it successfully entered Mars orbit on September 23, 2014

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India created history in February 2017 by successfully launching 104 satellites on a single mission

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Chandrayaan-2: ISRO launched India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 on July 22, 2019. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was India's first attempt to land on the lunar surface

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Chandrayaan-3, 2023: It was a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface 

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