Programmes & organisations

Every programme in the encyclopedia.

• Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme — India's programme to fly its own astronauts to low Earth orbit, approved in December 2018 and later widened to include the Bharatiya Antariksh Station.
• GSAT communication satellites — ISRO's newer geostationary communication satellites, which followed INSAT. The first, GSAT-1, flew on GSLV's first flight in April 2001.
• Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) — India's system of geostationary satellites for telecommunications, television broadcasting and weather, begun with INSAT-1A in April 1982.
• Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) programme — ISRO's family of Earth-observation satellites, which began with IRS-1A in March 1988. Its satellites image India's land, water, crops and coasts.
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) — India's national space agency, formed on 15 August 1969. It builds and launches India's satellites and rockets and runs its space science missions.
• ISRO space science missions — ISRO's missions to study the Moon, Mars, the Sun and the X-ray sky, beginning with Chandrayaan-1 in October 2008.
• NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) — India's own satellite navigation system, formerly called IRNSS. It is designed to give positions across India and up to 1,500 km beyond its borders.
• Skyroot Aerospace — A Hyderabad rocket company founded in 2018. Its Vikram-I made the first orbital launch by a private Indian company from Indian soil, on 18 July 2026.
• Student satellites — Small satellites built by Indian universities and students and launched by ISRO, beginning with Anna University's ANUSAT in April 2009.