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