Axu Xavier Abhijith P Gosh Rohan S Sarath Prasad Srinath Rajan Vijay A Vijay M

INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION

Father of Indian Space Programme

develop space technology and its application to various national tasks

used to transport and put satellites or spacecrafts into space Two launch vehicles: SLV-3 and ASLV

Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 India's first experimental satellite launch vehicle successfully launched on July 18, 1980 from SHAR Centre Sriharikota SLV-3 secured for India a place in the community of space-faring nations

Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle was developed to act as a low cost intermediate vehicle to demonstrate and validate critical technologies

Under the ASLV programme four developmental flights were conducted

ASLV-D3 , SROSS-C , ASLV-D4, SROSS-C2

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle India's first operational satellite launch vehicle

proved its reliability and versatility by launching 62satellites / spacecrafts

22 consecutively successful flights out of 23 launches Used a total of 27 satellites for launching

Used to launch SRE-1, Chandrayaan -1, Kalpana-1

PSLV C20 successfully launches Indo-French satellite SARAL and six other payloads into the orbit from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. PSLV-C20 is the 23rd PSLV Mission of ISRO and Ninth 'Core-Alone' (without solid strap-on motors) variant. SARAL (Satellite with ARGOS and ALTIKA ) is an ISROCNES(France) joint Venture for oceanographic studies. Other six auxiliary payloads are from Canada (2), Austria (2), Denmark (1) and UK (1)

Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark I&II GSLV-Mk I commissioned after second successful flight in May 2003 GSLV - MK II will use indigenously developed cryogenic Upper Stage GSLV - MK III is under development

Indian National Satellites (INSAT) for communication, television broadcasting and meteorological services which is Geo Stationary Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites for resources monitoring and management which is Earth Observation Satellites PSLV for launching IRS type and GSLV for INSAT type of satellites Experimental Satellites which are generally small comparing to INSAT or IRS Space Missions to explore the space.

Lead Centre for development of satellite launch vehicles and associated technologies Centre pursues active research and development in a host of distinct technology domains Major programmes - launch vehicle projects of PSLV, GSLV Mark II and Mark III, Rohini Sounding Rockets, Space-capsule Recovery Experiments, Reusable Launch Vehicles and Air Breathing Propulsion for Advanced Reusable Launch Vehicles.

ISRO Satellite Centre (lSAC) at Bangalore Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota near Chennai Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Valiamala, Mahendagiri and Bangalore Space Application Centre (SAC) at Ahmedabad

Chairman Dr. Radhakrishnan Former Chairman Shri G Madhavan Nair