India's space agency, formed in 1969 and preceded by the Indian National Committee for Space Research. It operates within the Space Commission and Department of Space (DOS) established by the Indian government in 1972. The main launch site is the SHAR Centre, 100 km north of Chennai (formerly Madras). The agency's first satellite was Aryabhata, launched in 1975. Subsequent satellites have included the Rohini series, first launched in 1979, the Indian National Satellite System, first launched in 1982, and the Indian Remote-Sensing Satellites, first launched in 1988. In 2001, ISRO successfully launched its communications satellite GSAT-1, when the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) placed it into orbit. The agency has been planning its first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, to carry out high-resolution mapping of the topographic features in three dimensions. ISRO launched Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), aka Mangalyaan, on 5 November 2013. It has been orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. As of September 2017, the ISRO has launched 92 spacecraft (with 11 launch or spacecraft failures), 64 of which were launched from India (nine unsuccessfully); and two were re-entry missions. ISRO has also launched 209 foreign satellites to date.

https://www.isro.gov.in News of the activities of the Indian Space Research Organization. The site includes information about India's space centre network and research facilities, and well-illustrated pages profiling specific missions.