On August 15, 1969, India established Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under the Department of Atomic Energy, which ...

A distinguished Indian Air Force officer, Group Captain Subhanshu Shukla is part of the AXIOM-4 mission a private crewed spaceflight to the ISS organized by Houston based Axiom Space, in collaboration ...

Fashion designer Manish Tripathi designs a unique mission badge for Group Captain Subhanshu Shukla's Axiom-4 space journey, ...

PM Modi hails golden jubilee of Aryabhata, India's first satellite, says country now global space power. ANI | Updated: Apr 27, 2025 16:10 IST ...

It was in the spring, exactly half a century ago, that India launched its first satellite, Aryabhata, through the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The satellite, Aryabhata, provided a huge boost to India’s space programme. Credit: NASA/Alamy. In the early hours of 19 April 1975, the mood at the Soviet military launch site of Kapustin Yar ...

When thrusters of the Soviet rocket carrier Interkosmos fired Aryabhata successfully into space from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome in 1975, it was a historic lift-off that launched India’s satellite ...

India’s space programme began on April 19, 1975, when its first satellite Aryabhata was launched at 1:28:55 pm IST from the Soviet Union’s Kapustin Yar Cosmodrome. Built in just 30 months by a young ...

On this day in 1975, India launched its first satellite, Aryabhata, laying the foundation of India’s satellite programme. Today, India stands among the world’s leading spacefaring nations.

Aryabhata’s project director, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, who passed away in 2017, used to talk about that chilly morning in Russia, when the satellite was launched.

On April 19, 1975, India took a bold leap into the cosmos with the launch of its first satellite, Aryabhata. Named after the ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer, the satellite not only marked ...