ISRO's current project to send an unmanned lunar mission probe Chandrayaan-1 is its first attempt at exploration of the solar system has been a great success. The probe entered the lunar orbit from where it lauched a moon impact probe making India the forth country in the world to land on the moon. The Satellite will survey the surface of the moon in far greater detail than has ever been done before. This mission is to locate resources and carry out various scientific experiments.
Headquartered in Bangalore, ISRO functions under the Department of Space of the Government of India and boasts of world-class infrastructure for development and testing of satellites.
Scientists conduct a pre-launch test on CARTOSAT-1, a state-of-the-art remote sensing satellite for cartographic applications.
True to the mission of its founder, the visionary Dr Vikram Sarabhai, ISRO has developed two satellite launch vehicles, PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) and GSLV (Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle), to place INSAT (Indian National Satellite) and IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) satellites in the required orbits.
Bangalore is a crucial centre for ISRO, with major R&D centres for the development of satellites and facilities for tracking remote sensing. Its Satellite Centre is the lead centre for design, development, fabrication, integration and testing of communication, remote sensing and scientific satellites launched by ISRO.