Isro: Articles and Explainers

Science & Space

Aditya-L1's Indian-Built Coronagraph Showed a Solar Eruption of 5 August 2024 Expanding Unevenly, With Plasma Moving Both Towards and Away From the Spacecraft

Nov 5, 2026

AI & Technology

INSAT, India's Satellite System Since 1983, Carries Television, Telephone Links, Weather Pictures, Cyclone Alerts and Rescue Beacons From Geostationary Orbit

Nov 5, 2026

Science & Space

ISRO Announced on 16 October 2026 That Gaganyaan's Crew Module and Service Module Separation Tests Are Complete, Clearing the Split That Starts the Capsule's Return Before the First Uncrewed Flight

Nov 5, 2026

Science & Space

India will have four launch pads by 2029, ISRO's chairman said on 24 October 2026, with a third pad at Sriharikota and a new SSLV launch complex at Kulasekarapattinam in Tamil Nadu

Nov 5, 2026

AI & Technology

IIT Madras's SHAKTI Open Processor Has Produced Three Chips at India's SCL Fab, From RIMO in 2018 to the IRIS Space Controller Booted With ISRO in 2025

Nov 5, 2026

Science & Space

GSLV-F18 Put NVS-03, the Third Next-Generation NavIC Satellite and One Carrying an Indigenous Atomic Clock, in Orbit on 30 October 2026, and Its Own Engine Fired the Next Day to Begin the Climb

Nov 2, 2026

Science & Space

India's Third National Space Day, Held in Ahmedabad on 23 August 2026, Marked More Than 440 Space Startups Six Years After the Sector Opened to Private Companies

Oct 29, 2026

Science & Space

ISRO's CE20 Cryogenic Engine Passed Its Flight Acceptance Test at the Uprated 220 kN Thrust on 9 September 2026, Ahead of the LVM3-M7 Launch

Oct 29, 2026

AI & Technology

SITE Brought Indian-Made Television Programmes to 2,400 Villages in Six States for a Full Year From 1 August 1975, Using a NASA Satellite and Receivers Built in India

Oct 29, 2026

Science & Space

Skyroot's Vikram-1 reached orbit on its first flight from Sriharikota on 18 July 2026, the first orbital launch by a private Indian company

Oct 29, 2026

Science & Space

AstroSat, Launched on 28 September 2015 With Five Instruments, Has Worked for a Decade, Caught Extreme-Ultraviolet Light From a Galaxy 9.3 Billion Light Years Away and Measured X-ray Polarisation From the Crab Pulsar

Oct 27, 2026

Science & Space

Chandrayaan-2's Orbiter Entered Lunar Orbit on 20 August 2019, and Its Eight Instruments Have Since Reported Hydroxyl, Sodium, Argon-40 and Possible Polar Ice

Oct 27, 2026

Science & Space

Satish Dhawan Led ISRO From 1972 to 1984, Saw SLV-3 Reach Orbit on 18 July 1980, and Has Had the Sriharikota Spaceport Named for Him Since 5 September 2002

Oct 27, 2026

Science & Space

ISRO's POEM-4 Turned a Spent PSLV Upper Stage Into a Laboratory With 24 Experiments, Sprouted Cowpea Seeds in 4 Days and Completed 1,000 Orbits Before Re-entering on 4 April 2025

Oct 23, 2026

Science & Space

Aditya-L1 and Europe's Proba-3 Watched the Same Two Solar Eruptions on 14 and 16 September 2025, and a Bengaluru-Led Team Has Published the First Joint Analysis of Both Spacecraft's Data

Oct 22, 2026

Science & Space

India's NavIC Already Tracks More Than 10,400 Locomotives and Serves Over 40,000 Fishing Boats, and NVS-03, the Satellite Meant to Restore Its Standalone Positioning, Is Ready for Launch

Oct 15, 2026

Science & Space

A 2,367 kg Satellite Launched on 4 September 2026 Is India's First Imaging Satellite for Geosynchronous Orbit, and Three Engine Burns Had Lifted It to About 35,000 km by 7 September

Oct 14, 2026

Science & Space

Gaganyaan's Escape System Passed Its First Flight Test on 21 October 2023, and Two Chinook Drops Have Since Validated the Parachutes Ahead of the Uncrewed G1 Flight

Oct 10, 2026

Science & Space

GPS Satellite Clocks Gain 38 Microseconds a Day, the US Space Force Runs the System, and India's NavIC Is Down to Three Navigation Satellites

Oct 8, 2026

Science & Space

India's Space Station Has Approval for One of Its Five Modules, an Estimated Cost of ₹1,763 Crore and a Launch Target of 2028

Oct 8, 2026

Science & Space

Aditya-L1 Flew 1.5 Million Kilometres to Watch the Sun, Then Logged the Eruptions Behind the Strongest Geomagnetic Storm Since 2003

Oct 6, 2026

Science & Space

Four Air Force Test Pilots Were Named India's Astronauts in February 2024, and One of Them Has Already Flown to the Space Station

Oct 6, 2026

Science & Space

NISAR, the NASA-ISRO Radar Satellite Launched on 30 July 2025, Has Now Mapped a Sinking Mexico City, the Ground Shift After a Venezuelan Earthquake and an Erupting Kamchatka Volcano

Sep 26, 2026

Science & Space

India Built Its Own Cryogenic Rocket Engine After Russia Froze a Sale in 1993, and It Took Until 5 January 2014 to Fly Successfully

Sep 17, 2026

Briefings

The Researcher Who Warned AI Could Go Catastrophically Wrong Just Joined OpenAI's Safety Board

Sep 11, 2026

Briefings

The AI Platform an OpenAI Agent Broke Into This Summer Just Sold to Nvidia for $13 Billion

Sep 6, 2026

Briefings

Three AI Chatbots Crashed at Once, the Same Day OpenAI Launched One Built to Hack

Sep 4, 2026

Briefings

The AI Hub an OpenAI Model Hacked in July Is Now Exploring a $13 Billion Sale

Aug 25, 2026

Science & Space

India's Mars Orbiter Mission Reached Orbit on Its First Try for ₹450 Crore and Worked More Than Seven Years on a Six-Month Plan

Aug 16, 2026

Science & Space

Shubhanshu Shukla Became the First Indian on the International Space Station in June 2025, 41 Years After Rakesh Sharma, and Ran Seven Indian Experiments in Orbit

Aug 15, 2026

Science & Space

ISRO Docked Two 220 kg Satellites in Orbit on 16 January 2025, Separated Them on 13 March, Docked Them Again on 20 April and Passed Power Between Them on 21 April

Aug 13, 2026

Science & Space

ISRO's Pushpak Space Plane Landed Itself Three Times on a Runway at Chitradurga After Helicopter Drops From 4.5 km, Flying the Same Winged Body Each Time

Jul 31, 2026

Science & Space

Vikram Sarabhai Founded a Cosmic-Ray Laboratory at 28, Then Began India's Space Programme in a Church at Thumba, Where the First Rocket Flew on 21 November 1963

Jul 16, 2026