ISRO

Space agencyFounded 1969Bengaluru, India isro.gov.in

The Indian Space Research Organisation, founded in 1969 and headquartered in Bengaluru, is India's national space agency. ISRO is known for delivering missions at comparatively low cost: the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) reached Mars on its first attempt, and Chandrayaan-3 achieved the first soft landing near the lunar south pole in 2023. The agency operates the PSLV and GSLV/LVM3 launch vehicles, a fleet of communications and remote-sensing satellites, and is developing the crewed Gaganyaan programme. It is funded through the Indian government's Department of Space.