INDIA’S SPACE PROGRAM

CONTRIBUTION IN
NATION BUILDING
INDIAN SPACE PROGRAM
• “हमें विश्िास है कि यदि हमें राष्ट्रीय
स्तर पर और राष्ट्रों िे समि
ु ाय में एि
सार्थि भमू मिा निभािी है , तो हमें मिष्ट्ु य
और समाज िी िास्तविि समस्याओं िे
मिए उन्ित तििीिों िे अिुप्रयोग में
किसी से पीछे िहीं होिा चादहए –
• डॉ विक्रम साराभाई
• “WE ARE CONVINCED THAT IF WE
ARE TO PLAY A MEANINGFUL ROLE
NATIONALLY, AND IN THE
COMMUNITY OF NATIONS, WE MUST
BE SECOND TO NONE IN THE
APPLICATION OF ADVANCED
TECHNOLOGIES TO THE REAL
PROBLEMS OF MAN AND SOCIETY”
 HISTORY ISRO

APPLICATION
Content
ACHIEVEMENT

DEFENCE IN SPACE
21 Nov 1963

• THE FIRST SOUNDING

ROCKET LAUNCH TOOK
PLACE FROM THUMBA

• MARKING THE BEGINNING

OF INDIAN SPACE
PROGRAMME IN INDIA.
SLV-3 LAUNCH- 18 JULY 1980

• INDIA TOOK THE BIG LEAP

• ENTERED TOP SIX NATIONS
TO HAVE SATELLITE
LAUNCH VEHICLE
CAPABILITY.
• SLV-3 LAUNCHED 35 KG
ROHINI SATELLITE INTO A
LOW EARTH ORBIT.
FOREIGN TO INDIAN JOURNEY

• FIRST SOUNDING ROCKET:

EVERYTHING WAS
FOREIGN
• 50 YEARS LATER 5TH
NOVEMBER, 2013, WHEN
ISRO LAUNCHED
• MARS ORBITAL MISSION
(MOM): COMPLETELY
INDIAN .
 THE INDIAN SPACE PROGRAMME WAS BORN
IN ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH.

IT HAS COME A LONG WAY

• 45 CENTRESS LOCATED AT 23 PLACES ACROSS INDIA.

THE JOURNEY • ISRO HAS 112 SPACECRAFT MISSIONS
• 82 LAUNCH MISSIONS
• 12 STUDENT SATELLITES
• 2 RE-ENTRY MISSIONS
• LAUNCH OF 342 FOREIGN SATELLITES OF 34 COUNTRIES
TIMELINE SPACE PROGRAMME

Indian National Committee for Space Research Space Commission and the Department of Space
(INCOSPAR) (DOS)

Aug. 1969

1962 June 1972

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

 EARTH OBSERVATION
SATELLITE
• INSAT Series Satellites: Metrological
payload
• Remote sensing : Ministries such as
Ministry of Mines, Ministry of
Petroleum and Natural Gas,
Department of Atomic Energy and
Ministry of Steel.
• Lithological, Geomorphological and
Structural mapping,.
• Geo-exploration, Geo-environmental
and Geo-hazard studies
WHEAT CROPS- TIME SERIES
Solar Power Wind Power
 COMMUNICATION SATELLITE
SYSTEM

• 17 SATELLITES
• C-BAND, EXTENDED C-BAND, KU-
BAND, KA/KU BAND AND S-BAND.
• USERS: BSNL, GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES ,AAI, ONGC
• DISASTER MANAGEMENT
• TELEMEDICINE
• TELE EDUCATION
 SATELLITE
NAVIGATION SYSTEM
• Satellite Navigation (SATNAV): GAGAN
and Navigation with Indian Constellation
(NavIC).
• The GPS Aided Geo Augmented
Navigation (GAGAN) system: (ISRO)
+AAI
• NavIC is providing two types of services:
• Standard Positioning Service (SPS)
• Restricted Service (RS) (20 m) area and
timing accuracy better than 40 ns (2σ).
SPACE SCIENCE AND
PLANETARY RESEARCH SYSTEM
• SUPPORTING NOVEL RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE FIELDS
OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE, ASTRONOMY AND PLANETARY
EXPLORATION BY PROVIDING BOTH TECHNICAL AND
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES AND
RESEARCH INSTITUTES.

• ASTROSAT IS CURRENTLY SERVICING 48 COUNTRIES.

• DATA FROM ASTROSAT IS WIDELY UTILIZED FOR THE

STUDY OF VARIOUS FIELDS OF ASTRONOMY, FROM
GALACTIC TO EXTRA-GALACTIC
SPACE • . THE FIRST INTERPLANETARY MISSION
SCIENCE FROM INDIA, MARS ORBITER
MISSION(MOM) HAS COMPLETED SEVEN
YEARS IN ORBIT.
AND • CHANDRAYAAN-2, INDIA’S SECOND
MISSION IS PROVIDING USEFUL DATA.
PLANETARY • ADITYA-L1 IS THE FIRST DEDICATED
SPACE-BASED SOLAR OBSERVATORY OF
RESEARCH INDIA

SYSTEM
SPACE TRANSPORTATION
SYSTEM
POLAR SATELLITE LAUNCH VEHICLE
68 Indian 342 Foreign
51 missions
satellites satellites

MARS (Mars Moon 1st

Orbiter (Chandrayaan- observatory
Mission), 1) (ASTROSAT-1)

Record setting
104-satellites in one mission
The GSLV-D5 : GSAT-14 (1ST Comm
Satellite launched from Indian Soil)

GSLV-F01 EDUSAT (1840 kg)

11 GSLV flights
GSLV MK-III

• The Geosynchronous
Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark
III (GSLV Mk III), has been
developed towards achieving
indigenous launch capability
to launch 4 tonne class of
satellites into GTO.
• Human rated GSLV-Mk III
(HLVM3) is identified as the
launch vehicle for Gaganyaan
mission.
REUSABLE LAUNCH
VEHICLE
• Reusable Launch Vehicle
programme comprises of Orbital
Re-entry Experiment (ORE) and
Landing Experiment ( RLV-LEX).
• Low cost access to space is a
primary goal of space
programmes around the world.
• ISRO has accomplished
successfully its maiden RLV-TD
HEX-01 mission on 23rd May,
2016 from SDSC/SHAR and
successfully
INTERNATION SPACE CO-OPERATIONS
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