From Aryabhata To Gaganyaan: A Timeline Of ISRO’s Key Milestones In PICS

1975: ISRO launched its first satellite, Aryabhatta, making India’s entry into space exploration. (Image: ISRO)

1980: The space organisation successfully launched the SLV-3, making India the seventh country to achieve orbital launches. (Image: X)

1982: It launched INSAT-1A, the first satellite in the Indian National Satellite System. (Image: X)

1994: The year marks the successful launch of IRS-P2 using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). (Image: X)

2008: India’s first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 was successfully launched. It discovered water molecule in the moon. (Image: X)

2013: India became the first country to reach Mars with the successful launch of Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission). ISRO was the fourth space agency globally to do so. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

2019: ISRO launched Chandrayaan-2 to land near the southern pole of the Moon; however, the lander lost contact during descent. (File Pic)

2023: Successfully launched Chandrayaan-3, achieving a soft landing on the Moon's south pole on August 23, 2023. The mission made India the first country to achieve a soft landing in that region. (Image: X)

2023: Just weeks after Chandrayaan-3, ISRO launched Aditya-L1 on September 2, 2023. It is India's first space-based solar observatory designed to study the outer atmosphere of the Sun, specifically its corona. (File Pic)

2023: Conducted a successful test flight for the upcoming Gaganyaan human spaceflight program in October 2023. The mission is India's ambitious human spaceflight program aimed at sending Indian astronauts into space. (File Pic)