Rani Jacob

ISRO Headquarters

Indian Space programme concentrated on achieving self reliance and developing capability to build and launch communication satellites for television broadcast, telecommunications and meteorological applications; remote sensing satellites for management of natural resources. The objective of ISRO is to develop space technology and its application to various national tasks. ISRO has established two major space systems, INSAT for communication, television broadcasting and meteorological services, and Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS) system for resources monitoring and management. ISRO has developed two satellite launch vehicles, PSLV and GSLV, to place INSAT and IRS satellites in the required orbits. ISRO also provides launch/satellite services to customers from other countries and is looking forward to the development of advanced space transportation systems like gsLVMK3 and Reusable Launch vehicles (RLV) and space science missions.