34 Facts About ISRO

ISRO is India's primary agency for performing tasks related to space-based applications, space exploration and the development of related technologies.

ISRO built India's first satellite, Aryabhata, which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1975.

In 1980, ISRO launched satellite RS-1 onboard its own SLV-3, making India the seventh country to be capable of undertaking orbital launches.

ISRO has the world's largest constellation of remote-sensing satellites and operates the GAGAN and NAVIC satellite navigation systems.

ISRO's programs have played a significant role in the socio-economic development of India and have supported both civilian and military domains in various aspects including disaster management, telemedicine and navigation and reconnaissance missions.

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Later in 1972, a space commission and Department of Space were set up to oversee space technology development in India specifically and ISRO was brought under DOS, institutionalising space research in India and forging the Indian space program into its existing form.

ISRO was under US government sanctions between 6 May 1992 to 6 May 1994.

ISRO launched Chandrayaan-1 in 2008, the first probe to verify the presence of water on the Moon and the Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013, the first Asian spacecraft to enter Martian orbit; India was the first country to succeed at that on its first attempt.

The one adopted consists of an orange arrow shooting upwards attached with two blue coloured satellite panels with the name of ISRO written in two sets of text, orange-coloured Devanagari on the left and blue-coloured English in the Prakrta typeface on the right.

ISRO is the national space agency of India for the purpose of all space-based applications like reconnaissance, communications and doing research.

ISRO has incubated its technologies in India's private space sector, boosting its growth.

ISRO has put into operation two major satellite systems: the Indian National Satellite System for communication services, and the Indian Remote Sensing Programme satellites for management of natural resources.

ISRO is managed by the DOS, which itself falls under the authority of the Space Commission and manages the following agencies and institutes:.

ISRO has opened Space Technology Incubation Centres at premier technical universities in India which will incubate startups to build applications and products in tandem with the industry and would be used for future space missions.

Early warning, ISRO began a ?400 crore project called Network for Space Object Tracking and Analysis .

At present, ISRO operates one of the largest constellations of active communication and earth imaging satellites for military and civilian uses.

ISRO did not have adequate funds to develop ASLV and PSLV at once.

ISRO initially had a great problem realising GSLV as the development of CE-7.

ISRO will set up an astronaut training centre in Bangalore to prepare personnel for flights in the crewed vehicle.

ISRO had to build centrifuges to prepare astronauts for the acceleration phase of the launch.

ISRO is working towards an orbital crewed spacecraft that can operate for seven days in low Earth orbit.

ISRO launched it using a modified version of the PSLV on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

ISRO is developing and operationalising more powerful and less pollutive rocket engines so it can eventually develop much heavier rockets.

ISRO is studying heavy and super-heavy lift launch vehicles .

ISRO launched the prototype's test flight, RLV-TD, from the Sriharikota spaceport in February 2016.

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Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, called alpha source thermoelectric technology by ISRO, is a type of atomic battery which uses nuclear decay heat from radioactive material to power the spacecraft.

Development of RTGs will allow ISRO to undertake long-duration deep space missions to the outer planets.

ISRO is considering an orbiter mission to Venus called Shukrayaan-1, that could launch as early as 2023 to study the planet's atmosphere.

ISRO has applied its technology for telemedicine, directly connecting patients in rural areas to medical professionals in urban locations via satellite.

ISRO has helped implement India's Biodiversity Information System, completed in October 2002.

ISRO's research has been diverted into spin-offs to develop various technologies for other sectors.

ISRO has two collaborative satellite missions with France's CNES, namely Megha-Tropiques to study water cycle in the tropical atmosphere and SARAL for altimetry.

NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar is a joint Indo-US radar project carrying an L Band and an S Band radar.

In late 2009, some ISRO insiders exposed information about the Devas-Antrix deal, and the ensuing investigations led to the deal's annulment.