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Full disc Image of Mars sent by
Mars Orbiter Spacecraft
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Infrastructure for Space Development
India has established a strong infrastructure for realising its
space programme. They include facilities for the development
of satellites and launch vehicles and their testing; launch
infrastructure for sounding rockets and satellite launch vehicles;
telemetry, tracking and command network; data reception
and processing systems for remote sensing. A number of
academic and research institutions as well as industries
participate in the Indian Space Programme. Several Indian
industries have the expertise to undertake sophisticated jobs
required for space systems.
Space Services from India
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ASTROSAT International co-operation has been the hallmark of Indian space programme. India participates in
India has flown Gamma-Ray and Retarding Potential Analyser payloads on two of its major space fora including the UN, IAF, COSPAR and CEOS. India has set up the Centre for Space
Stretched Rohini Satellites launched in 1992 and 1994. IRS-P3, launched in 1996, carried Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTE-AP) which is sponsored by the
an X-ray astronomy payload. United Nations. India offers training in space applications to personnel from developing countries
MEGHA-TROPIQUES
Chandrayaan-1, India’s first spacecraft mission to moon, was successfully launched by under the programme Sharing of Experience in Space (SHARES). Chandrayaan-1, a 1400 kg
PSLV-C11 on October 22, 2008 into an Earth orbit. Carrying 11 payloads built in India and unmanned spacecraft built by ISRO for exploring the moon, carried 11 scientific instruments from
abroad, the spacecraft later reached the moon and went into an orbit around it with the help India, the United States, the European Space Agency and Bulgaria. Youthsat, an Indo-Russian
of its Liquid Apogee Motor. After reaching its final operational orbit of 100 km height from scientific satellite, was successfully launched onboard PSLV in 2011. Megha-Tropiques, a joint
the lunar surface, the spacecraft’s Moon Impact Probe separated and successfully reached Indo-French satellite mission for the study of tropical atmosphere and SARAL, another joint
the lunar surface 25 minutes later, carrying Indian tricolour with it on November 14, 2008. Indo-French satellite mission for ocean studies, were successfully launched by PSLV in 2011 SARAL
During its active life, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft conclusively found the presence of water and 2013 respectively.
molecules on the moon.
In 2011, PSLV launched Youthsat, a scientific satellite built by ISRO carrying Indian and
Space Centres in India
CHANDIGARH
Russian payloads for Solar and Atmospheric Studies, into orbit. • Semi-Conductor Laboratory NEW DELHI
• DOS Branch Secretariat
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission envisages the exploration of Planet Mars through a spacecraft JODHPUR • ISRO Branch Office
orbiting that planet. The 1340 kg Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was launched by PSLV during its • Western RRSC • Delhi Earth Station
twenty fifth flight (PSLV-C25) on November 05, 2013, into an elliptical Earth parking orbit. UDAIPUR
Later, the spacecraft’s Liquid Engine (LAM) was used to raise the orbit of the spacecraft as • Solar Observatory
well as to place it in ‘Mars Transfer Trajectory’. The spacecraft, carrying five payloads - Mars DEHRADUN
Mt. ABU • Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Colour Camera, Thermal Infrared Imaging spectrometer, Methane Sensor for Mars, Lyman • Infrared Observatory • Centre for Space Science and Technology
Alpha Photometer and Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser - safely covered Education in Asia-Pacific
AHMEDABAD
a total travel distance of 666 million km to Mars and on September 24, 2014 sucessfully • Space Applications Centre LUCKNOW
entered into a 422 x 77,000 km orbit around that planet. • Physical Research Laboratory • ISTRAC Ground Station
• Development and Educational • ISRO Navigation Centre
Chandrayaan-2, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover is planned to be launched by GSLV. An Communication Unit
exclusive astronomical satellite, ASTROSAT and a solar observation spacecraft, ADITYA-1,
are also planned. Several ground-based facilities for space sciences, including a Mesosphere
Published by Publications and Public Relations, ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore
Stratosphere Troposphere (MST) Radar, have been set up in India.
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• North Eastern-Space
MUMBAI
Applications Centre
• ISRO Liaison Office
KOLKATA
• Eastern RRSC
BHOPAL
NAGPUR
• Master Control Facility - B
• Central RRSC
BENGALURU
• Space Commission
HYDERABAD
Second Launch Pad • Department of Space and
ISRO Headquarters • National Remote Sensing Centre
First Launch Pad • INSAT Programme Office
• NNRMS Secretariat SRIHARIKOTA Government of India established the Department of Space
• ADCOS Secretariat • Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR
• Civil Engineering Programme Office
in 1972 to promote development and application of space
TIRUPATI science and technology for socio-economic benefits.
• Antrix Corporation
• National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
• ISRO Satellite Centre Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the primary
PORT BLAIR
• Laboratory for Electro-Optic Systems
ALUVA • Down Range agency under the Department of Space for executing
• ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and
• Ammonium Perchlorate Experimental Plant
Command Network Station space programmes. During the seventies, India undertook
• Southern RRSC THIRUVANANTHAPURAM demonstration of space applications for communication,
• Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre • Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
broadcasting and remote sensing; designed and built
• Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre
A panoramic view of the First and Second Launch Pads at HASSAN experimental satellites – Aryabhata, Bhaskara, APPLE
December 2014
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota • Master Control Facility
•
•
ISRO Inertial Systems Unit
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology and Rohini – and experimental Satellite Launch Vehicles –
BYALALU SLV-3 and ASLV. Today, India has established space systems
Antrix Corporation Limited is the commercial arm of the • Indian Deep Space Network MAHENDRAGIRI
• Indian Space Science Data Centre • ISRO Propulsion Complex that form an important element of the national infrastructure.
Department of Space, with access to the resources of DOS • ISRO Navigation Centre India successfully sent its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to moon in
as well as Indian space industries. Antrix markets subsystems November 2008 and became the fourth individual country to
send a probe to the lunar surface. India’s 100th Space Mission
and components for satellites, undertakes contracts for
took place in September 2012 during which the country’s
building satellites to user specifications, provides launch workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully
Publications and Public Relations Antrix Corporation Limited
services and tracking facilities and organises training of Indian Space Research Organisation Antariksh Complex, New BEL Road placed French SPOT-6 and Japanese PROITERES
Bangalore - 560 231, INDIA
ISRO Headquarters, Antariksh Bhavan satelites in the required orbits. In September 2014, India
manpower and software development. New BEL Road, Bangalore - 560 231, INDIA Telephone: +91-80-2341 2183
Telephone: +91-80-23415474 Fax: +91-80-23412253   Fax: +91-80-2341 8981, 2351 4166 / 5486 successfully placed an unmanned spacecraft in an orbit around
E-mail: dpkarnik@isro.gov.in Website: www.isro.gov.in E-mail: cmd@antrix.gov.in mail@antrix.gov.in planet Mars.
Website: www.antrix.gov.in
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National Systems using Space Technology
INSAT/GSAT
• Telecommunications
• Broadcasting (TV, Radio)
• Business Communication
• Mobile Communication
• Tele-education
• Telemedicine
• Search & Rescue
• Satellite Navigation
• Meteorology
Tele-education Telemedicine Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1)
Launch Vehicles (IRNSS) Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) is a 550 kg capsule
IRS Tele-education programme of ISRO, through
INSAT/GSAT IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite that demonstrated a host of technologies for orbiting a capsule
INSAT/GSAT series of satellites, supports Patient’s End Expert Doctor’s END
• Natural Resources Management system being developed by India. It is designed to provide to perform experiments in microgravity conditions of space, and
• Natural Resources Information System GSLV • S e r v i c e s t h r o u g h a u d i o -
Referral Hospitals
accurate position information service to users in India after completion of the experiments, de-orbit and recover the
VSAT VSAT
• Water visual medium employing as well as the region extending up to 1500 km from its capsule. All these form the basis for reusable launch vehicles.
• Forest digital interactive classroom boundary, which is its primary service area. SRE-1 was launched on January 10, 2007 by PSLV-C7 and
LVM3 multimedia, multi-centric system twelve days later was successfully recovered over Bay of Bengal.
• Crop PSLV The IRNSS System is expected to provide a position
• Sustainable Distance Education accuracy of better than 20 m in the primary service area.
• Land
Service Video Conferencing
• Minerals The IRNSS space segment consists of seven satellites,
• School, college and higher
INSAT-3A • Environment levels of education and non- with three satellites in geostationary orbit and four satellites
• Ocean formal education in inclined geosynchronous orbit.
Cardiology

• Disaster Management Support Resourcesat-2 IRNSS-1A, 1B and 1C, the first three satellites in the
• Village Resource Centres IRNSS series, were successfully launched by PSLV
Health Specialist Centre
Pathology on July 02, 2013, April 04, 2014 and October 16, 2014
Indian National Satellite (INSAT) System Video Conferencing respectively.
Commissioned in 1983, INSAT is a multipurpose satellite system for telecommunications,
television broadcasting, meteorology, disaster warning and search and rescue.
Besides telecommunications and regular broadcasting services, INSAT is widely
Mobile Service
used for interactive education, developmental communication and telemedicine.
Meteorological imaging and direct-to-community broadcast capabilities of INSAT Panel of Doctors

help in issuing warnings on impending cyclones. INSAT also carries transponders 60 specialty hospitals in major cities connected to
dedicated to search and rescue operations as part of international COSPAS/ • 60,000 classrooms in the 306 hospitals at rural and remote areas and 18 mobile
SARSAT programme. EDUSAT network telemedicine units
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Village Resource Centre (vrc)
Space-based services for community outreach
Disaster Warning System Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Launch Vehicles
India has developed and
(IRS) System
INPUTS
• Insat vhrr Imaging
• Cyclone Tracking commissioned Polar Satellite
• Cyclone Warning
Cyclone L a u n c h Ve h i c l e ( P S LV ) a n d CARE
Cyclone
Formation
Commissioned in 1988, India now has Geosynchronous Satellite Launch
Warning
Centre at
Chennai
the world’s largest constellation of Vehicle (GSLV). PSLV can launch
S-B
lin d

remote sensing satellites. The system 1850 kg class remote sensing

Up Ban

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C-

Sounding Rockets
ow

offers space-based data in a range of satellites into a 480 km polar Orbit.

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Earth Station
at Chennai
spectral bands, spatial resolutions and It can also place a satellite weighing
swaths. The data is used for several about 1200 kg in Geosynchronous

LVM3
GSLV
PSLV
Selectively
applications covering agriculture, water Transfer Orbit (GTO) or a 3500 kg
Addressable
DWS Receivers class satellite in Low Earth Orbit.
resources, urban development, mineral
G S LV, e q u i p p e d w i t h a n
prospecting, environment, forestry, drought
indigenously developed Cryogenic
and flood forecasting, ocean resources
Upper Stage, is capable of launching
and disaster management. 2000 kg class of satellites into
Madurai as seen by Cartosat-2B GTO. LVM3, to place 4000 kg
class satellites in GTO, had
Communication and Navigation Satellites of India Earth Observation Satellites of India its first experimental suborbital
RH-200 RH-300 RH-300 Mk II RH-560 Mk II flight (LVM3-X/CARE) in December
2014, which was a success.
A variety of Rohini sounding rockets
The 3775 kg Crew Module
have been developed by India for Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment
conducting scientific and technological (CARE) carried on-board
experiments. LVM3-X to a height of 126 km, later
safely landed over Andaman sea
INSAT-3C INSAT-3A INSAT-4A INSAT-4B INSAT-4CR GSAT-8 GSAT-12 GSAT-10 IRNSS-1A GSAT-7 GSAT-14 IRNSS-1B IRNSS-1C GSAT-16 KALPANA-1 CARTOSAT-1 CARTOSAT-2 CARTOSAT-2A RISAT-2 OCEANSAT-2 CARTOSAT-2B RESOURCESAT-2 MEGHA- RISAT-1 SARAL INSAT-3D with the help of its parachutes and Static test of Static Test of
LVM-3 S200 strap-on LVM-3 L110
2002 2003 2005 2007 2007 2011 2011 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 2014 2002 2005 2007 2008 2009 2009 2010 2011 TROPIQUES
2011
2012 2013 2013
recovered. booster Liquid Core
Stage

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National Systems using Space Technology
INSAT/GSAT
• Telecommunications
• Broadcasting (TV, Radio)
• Business Communication
• Mobile Communication
• Tele-education
• Telemedicine
• Search & Rescue
• Satellite Navigation
• Meteorology
Tele-education Telemedicine Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1)
Launch Vehicles (IRNSS) Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) is a 550 kg capsule
IRS Tele-education programme of ISRO, through
INSAT/GSAT IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite that demonstrated a host of technologies for orbiting a capsule
INSAT/GSAT series of satellites, supports Patient’s End Expert Doctor’s END
• Natural Resources Management system being developed by India. It is designed to provide to perform experiments in microgravity conditions of space, and
• Natural Resources Information System GSLV • S e r v i c e s t h r o u g h a u d i o -
Referral Hospitals
accurate position information service to users in India after completion of the experiments, de-orbit and recover the
VSAT VSAT
• Water visual medium employing as well as the region extending up to 1500 km from its capsule. All these form the basis for reusable launch vehicles.
• Forest digital interactive classroom boundary, which is its primary service area. SRE-1 was launched on January 10, 2007 by PSLV-C7 and
LVM3 multimedia, multi-centric system twelve days later was successfully recovered over Bay of Bengal.
• Crop PSLV The IRNSS System is expected to provide a position
• Sustainable Distance Education accuracy of better than 20 m in the primary service area.
• Land
Service Video Conferencing
• Minerals The IRNSS space segment consists of seven satellites,
• School, college and higher
INSAT-3A • Environment levels of education and non- with three satellites in geostationary orbit and four satellites
• Ocean formal education in inclined geosynchronous orbit.
Cardiology

• Disaster Management Support Resourcesat-2 IRNSS-1A, 1B and 1C, the first three satellites in the
• Village Resource Centres IRNSS series, were successfully launched by PSLV
Health Specialist Centre
Pathology on July 02, 2013, April 04, 2014 and October 16, 2014
Indian National Satellite (INSAT) System Video Conferencing respectively.
Commissioned in 1983, INSAT is a multipurpose satellite system for telecommunications,
television broadcasting, meteorology, disaster warning and search and rescue.
Besides telecommunications and regular broadcasting services, INSAT is widely
Mobile Service
used for interactive education, developmental communication and telemedicine.
Meteorological imaging and direct-to-community broadcast capabilities of INSAT Panel of Doctors

help in issuing warnings on impending cyclones. INSAT also carries transponders 60 specialty hospitals in major cities connected to
dedicated to search and rescue operations as part of international COSPAS/ • 60,000 classrooms in the 306 hospitals at rural and remote areas and 18 mobile
SARSAT programme. EDUSAT network telemedicine units
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Village Resource Centre (vrc)
Space-based services for community outreach
Disaster Warning System Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Launch Vehicles
India has developed and
(IRS) System
INPUTS
• Insat vhrr Imaging
• Cyclone Tracking commissioned Polar Satellite
• Cyclone Warning
Cyclone L a u n c h Ve h i c l e ( P S LV ) a n d CARE
Cyclone
Formation
Commissioned in 1988, India now has Geosynchronous Satellite Launch
Warning
Centre at
Chennai
the world’s largest constellation of Vehicle (GSLV). PSLV can launch
S-B
lin d

remote sensing satellites. The system 1850 kg class remote sensing

Up Ban

an
k

dD
C-

Sounding Rockets
ow

offers space-based data in a range of satellites into a 480 km polar Orbit.

nlin

DOT
k

Earth Station
at Chennai
spectral bands, spatial resolutions and It can also place a satellite weighing
swaths. The data is used for several about 1200 kg in Geosynchronous

LVM3
GSLV
PSLV
Selectively
applications covering agriculture, water Transfer Orbit (GTO) or a 3500 kg
Addressable
DWS Receivers class satellite in Low Earth Orbit.
resources, urban development, mineral
G S LV, e q u i p p e d w i t h a n
prospecting, environment, forestry, drought
indigenously developed Cryogenic
and flood forecasting, ocean resources
Upper Stage, is capable of launching
and disaster management. 2000 kg class of satellites into
Madurai as seen by Cartosat-2B GTO. LVM3, to place 4000 kg
class satellites in GTO, had
Communication and Navigation Satellites of India Earth Observation Satellites of India its first experimental suborbital
RH-200 RH-300 RH-300 Mk II RH-560 Mk II flight (LVM3-X/CARE) in December
2014, which was a success.
A variety of Rohini sounding rockets
The 3775 kg Crew Module
have been developed by India for Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment
conducting scientific and technological (CARE) carried on-board
experiments. LVM3-X to a height of 126 km, later
safely landed over Andaman sea
INSAT-3C INSAT-3A INSAT-4A INSAT-4B INSAT-4CR GSAT-8 GSAT-12 GSAT-10 IRNSS-1A GSAT-7 GSAT-14 IRNSS-1B IRNSS-1C GSAT-16 KALPANA-1 CARTOSAT-1 CARTOSAT-2 CARTOSAT-2A RISAT-2 OCEANSAT-2 CARTOSAT-2B RESOURCESAT-2 MEGHA- RISAT-1 SARAL INSAT-3D with the help of its parachutes and Static test of Static Test of
LVM-3 S200 strap-on LVM-3 L110
2002 2003 2005 2007 2007 2011 2011 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 2014 2002 2005 2007 2008 2009 2009 2010 2011 TROPIQUES
2011
2012 2013 2013
recovered. booster Liquid Core
Stage

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National Systems using Space Technology
INSAT/GSAT
• Telecommunications
• Broadcasting (TV, Radio)
• Business Communication
• Mobile Communication
• Tele-education
• Telemedicine
• Search & Rescue
• Satellite Navigation
• Meteorology
Tele-education Telemedicine Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1)
Launch Vehicles (IRNSS) Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) is a 550 kg capsule
IRS Tele-education programme of ISRO, through
INSAT/GSAT IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite that demonstrated a host of technologies for orbiting a capsule
INSAT/GSAT series of satellites, supports Patient’s End Expert Doctor’s END
• Natural Resources Management system being developed by India. It is designed to provide to perform experiments in microgravity conditions of space, and
• Natural Resources Information System GSLV • S e r v i c e s t h r o u g h a u d i o -
Referral Hospitals
accurate position information service to users in India after completion of the experiments, de-orbit and recover the
VSAT VSAT
• Water visual medium employing as well as the region extending up to 1500 km from its capsule. All these form the basis for reusable launch vehicles.
• Forest digital interactive classroom boundary, which is its primary service area. SRE-1 was launched on January 10, 2007 by PSLV-C7 and
LVM3 multimedia, multi-centric system twelve days later was successfully recovered over Bay of Bengal.
• Crop PSLV The IRNSS System is expected to provide a position
• Sustainable Distance Education accuracy of better than 20 m in the primary service area.
• Land
Service Video Conferencing
• Minerals The IRNSS space segment consists of seven satellites,
• School, college and higher
INSAT-3A • Environment levels of education and non- with three satellites in geostationary orbit and four satellites
• Ocean formal education in inclined geosynchronous orbit.
Cardiology

• Disaster Management Support Resourcesat-2 IRNSS-1A, 1B and 1C, the first three satellites in the
• Village Resource Centres IRNSS series, were successfully launched by PSLV
Health Specialist Centre
Pathology on July 02, 2013, April 04, 2014 and October 16, 2014
Indian National Satellite (INSAT) System Video Conferencing respectively.
Commissioned in 1983, INSAT is a multipurpose satellite system for telecommunications,
television broadcasting, meteorology, disaster warning and search and rescue.
Besides telecommunications and regular broadcasting services, INSAT is widely
Mobile Service
used for interactive education, developmental communication and telemedicine.
Meteorological imaging and direct-to-community broadcast capabilities of INSAT Panel of Doctors

help in issuing warnings on impending cyclones. INSAT also carries transponders 60 specialty hospitals in major cities connected to
dedicated to search and rescue operations as part of international COSPAS/ • 60,000 classrooms in the 306 hospitals at rural and remote areas and 18 mobile
SARSAT programme. EDUSAT network telemedicine units
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Village Resource Centre (vrc)
Space-based services for community outreach
Disaster Warning System Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Launch Vehicles
India has developed and
(IRS) System
INPUTS
• Insat vhrr Imaging
• Cyclone Tracking commissioned Polar Satellite
• Cyclone Warning
Cyclone L a u n c h Ve h i c l e ( P S LV ) a n d CARE
Cyclone
Formation
Commissioned in 1988, India now has Geosynchronous Satellite Launch
Warning
Centre at
Chennai
the world’s largest constellation of Vehicle (GSLV). PSLV can launch
S-B
lin d

remote sensing satellites. The system 1850 kg class remote sensing

Up Ban

an
k

dD
C-

Sounding Rockets
ow

offers space-based data in a range of satellites into a 480 km polar Orbit.

nlin

DOT
k

Earth Station
at Chennai
spectral bands, spatial resolutions and It can also place a satellite weighing
swaths. The data is used for several about 1200 kg in Geosynchronous

LVM3
GSLV
PSLV
Selectively
applications covering agriculture, water Transfer Orbit (GTO) or a 3500 kg
Addressable
DWS Receivers class satellite in Low Earth Orbit.
resources, urban development, mineral
G S LV, e q u i p p e d w i t h a n
prospecting, environment, forestry, drought
indigenously developed Cryogenic
and flood forecasting, ocean resources
Upper Stage, is capable of launching
and disaster management. 2000 kg class of satellites into
Madurai as seen by Cartosat-2B GTO. LVM3, to place 4000 kg
class satellites in GTO, had
Communication and Navigation Satellites of India Earth Observation Satellites of India its first experimental suborbital
RH-200 RH-300 RH-300 Mk II RH-560 Mk II flight (LVM3-X/CARE) in December
2014, which was a success.
A variety of Rohini sounding rockets
The 3775 kg Crew Module
have been developed by India for Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment
conducting scientific and technological (CARE) carried on-board
experiments. LVM3-X to a height of 126 km, later
safely landed over Andaman sea
INSAT-3C INSAT-3A INSAT-4A INSAT-4B INSAT-4CR GSAT-8 GSAT-12 GSAT-10 IRNSS-1A GSAT-7 GSAT-14 IRNSS-1B IRNSS-1C GSAT-16 KALPANA-1 CARTOSAT-1 CARTOSAT-2 CARTOSAT-2A RISAT-2 OCEANSAT-2 CARTOSAT-2B RESOURCESAT-2 MEGHA- RISAT-1 SARAL INSAT-3D with the help of its parachutes and Static test of Static Test of
LVM-3 S200 strap-on LVM-3 L110
2002 2003 2005 2007 2007 2011 2011 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 2014 2002 2005 2007 2008 2009 2009 2010 2011 TROPIQUES
2011
2012 2013 2013
recovered. booster Liquid Core
Stage

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Full disc Image of Mars sent by
Mars Orbiter Spacecraft
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Mars Orbiter Mission
Infrastructure for Space Development
India has established a strong infrastructure for realising its
space programme. They include facilities for the development
of satellites and launch vehicles and their testing; launch
infrastructure for sounding rockets and satellite launch vehicles;
telemetry, tracking and command network; data reception
and processing systems for remote sensing. A number of
academic and research institutions as well as industries
participate in the Indian Space Programme. Several Indian
industries have the expertise to undertake sophisticated jobs
required for space systems.
Space Services from India
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Space Sciences International Co-operation
ASTROSAT International co-operation has been the hallmark of Indian space programme. India participates in
India has flown Gamma-Ray and Retarding Potential Analyser payloads on two of its major space fora including the UN, IAF, COSPAR and CEOS. India has set up the Centre for Space
Stretched Rohini Satellites launched in 1992 and 1994. IRS-P3, launched in 1996, carried Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTE-AP) which is sponsored by the
an X-ray astronomy payload. United Nations. India offers training in space applications to personnel from developing countries
MEGHA-TROPIQUES
Chandrayaan-1, India’s first spacecraft mission to moon, was successfully launched by under the programme Sharing of Experience in Space (SHARES). Chandrayaan-1, a 1400 kg
PSLV-C11 on October 22, 2008 into an Earth orbit. Carrying 11 payloads built in India and unmanned spacecraft built by ISRO for exploring the moon, carried 11 scientific instruments from
abroad, the spacecraft later reached the moon and went into an orbit around it with the help India, the United States, the European Space Agency and Bulgaria. Youthsat, an Indo-Russian
of its Liquid Apogee Motor. After reaching its final operational orbit of 100 km height from scientific satellite, was successfully launched onboard PSLV in 2011. Megha-Tropiques, a joint
the lunar surface, the spacecraft’s Moon Impact Probe separated and successfully reached Indo-French satellite mission for the study of tropical atmosphere and SARAL, another joint
the lunar surface 25 minutes later, carrying Indian tricolour with it on November 14, 2008. Indo-French satellite mission for ocean studies, were successfully launched by PSLV in 2011 SARAL
During its active life, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft conclusively found the presence of water and 2013 respectively.
molecules on the moon.
In 2011, PSLV launched Youthsat, a scientific satellite built by ISRO carrying Indian and
Space Centres in India
CHANDIGARH
Russian payloads for Solar and Atmospheric Studies, into orbit. • Semi-Conductor Laboratory NEW DELHI
• DOS Branch Secretariat
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission envisages the exploration of Planet Mars through a spacecraft JODHPUR • ISRO Branch Office
orbiting that planet. The 1340 kg Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was launched by PSLV during its • Western RRSC • Delhi Earth Station
twenty fifth flight (PSLV-C25) on November 05, 2013, into an elliptical Earth parking orbit. UDAIPUR
Later, the spacecraft’s Liquid Engine (LAM) was used to raise the orbit of the spacecraft as • Solar Observatory
well as to place it in ‘Mars Transfer Trajectory’. The spacecraft, carrying five payloads - Mars DEHRADUN
Mt. ABU • Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Colour Camera, Thermal Infrared Imaging spectrometer, Methane Sensor for Mars, Lyman • Infrared Observatory • Centre for Space Science and Technology
Alpha Photometer and Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser - safely covered Education in Asia-Pacific
AHMEDABAD
a total travel distance of 666 million km to Mars and on September 24, 2014 sucessfully • Space Applications Centre LUCKNOW
entered into a 422 x 77,000 km orbit around that planet. • Physical Research Laboratory • ISTRAC Ground Station
• Development and Educational • ISRO Navigation Centre
Chandrayaan-2, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover is planned to be launched by GSLV. An Communication Unit
exclusive astronomical satellite, ASTROSAT and a solar observation spacecraft, ADITYA-1,
are also planned. Several ground-based facilities for space sciences, including a Mesosphere
Published by Publications and Public Relations, ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore
Stratosphere Troposphere (MST) Radar, have been set up in India.
Designed by Imagic Creatives and printed at Ravi Graphics, Bangalore
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SHILLONG
• North Eastern-Space
MUMBAI
Applications Centre
• ISRO Liaison Office
KOLKATA
• Eastern RRSC
BHOPAL
NAGPUR
• Master Control Facility - B
• Central RRSC
BENGALURU
• Space Commission
HYDERABAD
Second Launch Pad • Department of Space and
ISRO Headquarters • National Remote Sensing Centre
First Launch Pad • INSAT Programme Office
• NNRMS Secretariat SRIHARIKOTA Government of India established the Department of Space
• ADCOS Secretariat • Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR
• Civil Engineering Programme Office
in 1972 to promote development and application of space
TIRUPATI science and technology for socio-economic benefits.
• Antrix Corporation
• National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
• ISRO Satellite Centre Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the primary
PORT BLAIR
• Laboratory for Electro-Optic Systems
ALUVA • Down Range agency under the Department of Space for executing
• ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and
• Ammonium Perchlorate Experimental Plant
Command Network Station space programmes. During the seventies, India undertook
• Southern RRSC THIRUVANANTHAPURAM demonstration of space applications for communication,
• Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre • Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
broadcasting and remote sensing; designed and built
• Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre
A panoramic view of the First and Second Launch Pads at HASSAN experimental satellites – Aryabhata, Bhaskara, APPLE
December 2014
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota • Master Control Facility
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•
ISRO Inertial Systems Unit
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology and Rohini – and experimental Satellite Launch Vehicles –
BYALALU SLV-3 and ASLV. Today, India has established space systems
Antrix Corporation Limited is the commercial arm of the • Indian Deep Space Network MAHENDRAGIRI
• Indian Space Science Data Centre • ISRO Propulsion Complex that form an important element of the national infrastructure.
Department of Space, with access to the resources of DOS • ISRO Navigation Centre India successfully sent its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to moon in
as well as Indian space industries. Antrix markets subsystems November 2008 and became the fourth individual country to
send a probe to the lunar surface. India’s 100th Space Mission
and components for satellites, undertakes contracts for
took place in September 2012 during which the country’s
building satellites to user specifications, provides launch workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully
Publications and Public Relations Antrix Corporation Limited
services and tracking facilities and organises training of Indian Space Research Organisation Antariksh Complex, New BEL Road placed French SPOT-6 and Japanese PROITERES
Bangalore - 560 231, INDIA
ISRO Headquarters, Antariksh Bhavan satelites in the required orbits. In September 2014, India
manpower and software development. New BEL Road, Bangalore - 560 231, INDIA Telephone: +91-80-2341 2183
Telephone: +91-80-23415474 Fax: +91-80-23412253   Fax: +91-80-2341 8981, 2351 4166 / 5486 successfully placed an unmanned spacecraft in an orbit around
E-mail: dpkarnik@isro.gov.in Website: www.isro.gov.in E-mail: cmd@antrix.gov.in mail@antrix.gov.in planet Mars.
Website: www.antrix.gov.in
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Full disc Image of Mars sent by
Mars Orbiter Spacecraft
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Mars Orbiter Mission
Infrastructure for Space Development
India has established a strong infrastructure for realising its
space programme. They include facilities for the development
of satellites and launch vehicles and their testing; launch
infrastructure for sounding rockets and satellite launch vehicles;
telemetry, tracking and command network; data reception
and processing systems for remote sensing. A number of
academic and research institutions as well as industries
participate in the Indian Space Programme. Several Indian
industries have the expertise to undertake sophisticated jobs
required for space systems.
Space Services from India
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Space Sciences International Co-operation
ASTROSAT International co-operation has been the hallmark of Indian space programme. India participates in
India has flown Gamma-Ray and Retarding Potential Analyser payloads on two of its major space fora including the UN, IAF, COSPAR and CEOS. India has set up the Centre for Space
Stretched Rohini Satellites launched in 1992 and 1994. IRS-P3, launched in 1996, carried Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTE-AP) which is sponsored by the
an X-ray astronomy payload. United Nations. India offers training in space applications to personnel from developing countries
MEGHA-TROPIQUES
Chandrayaan-1, India’s first spacecraft mission to moon, was successfully launched by under the programme Sharing of Experience in Space (SHARES). Chandrayaan-1, a 1400 kg
PSLV-C11 on October 22, 2008 into an Earth orbit. Carrying 11 payloads built in India and unmanned spacecraft built by ISRO for exploring the moon, carried 11 scientific instruments from
abroad, the spacecraft later reached the moon and went into an orbit around it with the help India, the United States, the European Space Agency and Bulgaria. Youthsat, an Indo-Russian
of its Liquid Apogee Motor. After reaching its final operational orbit of 100 km height from scientific satellite, was successfully launched onboard PSLV in 2011. Megha-Tropiques, a joint
the lunar surface, the spacecraft’s Moon Impact Probe separated and successfully reached Indo-French satellite mission for the study of tropical atmosphere and SARAL, another joint
the lunar surface 25 minutes later, carrying Indian tricolour with it on November 14, 2008. Indo-French satellite mission for ocean studies, were successfully launched by PSLV in 2011 SARAL
During its active life, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft conclusively found the presence of water and 2013 respectively.
molecules on the moon.
In 2011, PSLV launched Youthsat, a scientific satellite built by ISRO carrying Indian and
Space Centres in India
CHANDIGARH
Russian payloads for Solar and Atmospheric Studies, into orbit. • Semi-Conductor Laboratory NEW DELHI
• DOS Branch Secretariat
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission envisages the exploration of Planet Mars through a spacecraft JODHPUR • ISRO Branch Office
orbiting that planet. The 1340 kg Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was launched by PSLV during its • Western RRSC • Delhi Earth Station
twenty fifth flight (PSLV-C25) on November 05, 2013, into an elliptical Earth parking orbit. UDAIPUR
Later, the spacecraft’s Liquid Engine (LAM) was used to raise the orbit of the spacecraft as • Solar Observatory
well as to place it in ‘Mars Transfer Trajectory’. The spacecraft, carrying five payloads - Mars DEHRADUN
Mt. ABU • Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Colour Camera, Thermal Infrared Imaging spectrometer, Methane Sensor for Mars, Lyman • Infrared Observatory • Centre for Space Science and Technology
Alpha Photometer and Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser - safely covered Education in Asia-Pacific
AHMEDABAD
a total travel distance of 666 million km to Mars and on September 24, 2014 sucessfully • Space Applications Centre LUCKNOW
entered into a 422 x 77,000 km orbit around that planet. • Physical Research Laboratory • ISTRAC Ground Station
• Development and Educational • ISRO Navigation Centre
Chandrayaan-2, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover is planned to be launched by GSLV. An Communication Unit
exclusive astronomical satellite, ASTROSAT and a solar observation spacecraft, ADITYA-1,
are also planned. Several ground-based facilities for space sciences, including a Mesosphere
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Stratosphere Troposphere (MST) Radar, have been set up in India.
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SHILLONG
• North Eastern-Space
MUMBAI
Applications Centre
• ISRO Liaison Office
KOLKATA
• Eastern RRSC
BHOPAL
NAGPUR
• Master Control Facility - B
• Central RRSC
BENGALURU
• Space Commission
HYDERABAD
Second Launch Pad • Department of Space and
ISRO Headquarters • National Remote Sensing Centre
First Launch Pad • INSAT Programme Office
• NNRMS Secretariat SRIHARIKOTA Government of India established the Department of Space
• ADCOS Secretariat • Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR
• Civil Engineering Programme Office
in 1972 to promote development and application of space
TIRUPATI science and technology for socio-economic benefits.
• Antrix Corporation
• National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
• ISRO Satellite Centre Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the primary
PORT BLAIR
• Laboratory for Electro-Optic Systems
ALUVA • Down Range agency under the Department of Space for executing
• ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and
• Ammonium Perchlorate Experimental Plant
Command Network Station space programmes. During the seventies, India undertook
• Southern RRSC THIRUVANANTHAPURAM demonstration of space applications for communication,
• Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre • Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
broadcasting and remote sensing; designed and built
• Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre
A panoramic view of the First and Second Launch Pads at HASSAN experimental satellites – Aryabhata, Bhaskara, APPLE
December 2014
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota • Master Control Facility
•
•
ISRO Inertial Systems Unit
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology and Rohini – and experimental Satellite Launch Vehicles –
BYALALU SLV-3 and ASLV. Today, India has established space systems
Antrix Corporation Limited is the commercial arm of the • Indian Deep Space Network MAHENDRAGIRI
• Indian Space Science Data Centre • ISRO Propulsion Complex that form an important element of the national infrastructure.
Department of Space, with access to the resources of DOS • ISRO Navigation Centre India successfully sent its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to moon in
as well as Indian space industries. Antrix markets subsystems November 2008 and became the fourth individual country to
send a probe to the lunar surface. India’s 100th Space Mission
and components for satellites, undertakes contracts for
took place in September 2012 during which the country’s
building satellites to user specifications, provides launch workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully
Publications and Public Relations Antrix Corporation Limited
services and tracking facilities and organises training of Indian Space Research Organisation Antariksh Complex, New BEL Road placed French SPOT-6 and Japanese PROITERES
Bangalore - 560 231, INDIA
ISRO Headquarters, Antariksh Bhavan satelites in the required orbits. In September 2014, India
manpower and software development. New BEL Road, Bangalore - 560 231, INDIA Telephone: +91-80-2341 2183
Telephone: +91-80-23415474 Fax: +91-80-23412253   Fax: +91-80-2341 8981, 2351 4166 / 5486 successfully placed an unmanned spacecraft in an orbit around
E-mail: dpkarnik@isro.gov.in Website: www.isro.gov.in E-mail: cmd@antrix.gov.in mail@antrix.gov.in planet Mars.
Website: www.antrix.gov.in
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