JANUARY 2026 -
* ISRO Has Been Awarded Tagore Prize For Social Achievement 2024/25 Award
* Hyderbad Based Dhruva Space Will Launch 10 Space Mission On 12th January 2026
* Orbit Aid Aerospace Has Unveiled Its Official AayulSAT Will Launch On 12th January 2026
* ISRO LAUNCHED PSLV C-62
* ON 12TH JANUARY 2026 ISRO ATTEMPTED THE EOS-N1 MISSION FROM PSLV -C62 CARRIER AT SDSC - SHAR SARIHARIKOTA, ANDHRA PRADESH.
* THIS WAS THE 64TH FLIGHT FROM PSLV
* 5TH MISSION OF PSLV - DL VARIANT
* VEHICLE HEIGHT - 44.4 M
* IT WOULD CARRY EOS - N1 ALONG WITH 15 OTHER SATELLITE
* BOSCO UNIVERSITY STUDENT DEVELOPED SATELLITE - LACHIT - 1 ( FIRST SATELLITE FROM NORTH EAST TO BE SENT INTO SSPACE ABROAD PSLV- C62)
* AND ORBIT AID Aerospace - THEY SET TO DEMONSTRATE INDIA's FIRST O - ORBIT INTERNAL PROPELLANT TRANSFER
* DHRUVA SPACE TO DELIVER THEIR THYBOLT-3
* Bengaluru Based Nabh DRISHTI Aerospace Has Successfully Tested It's Indigenous ND400 Microjet Engine.
RETIRES -
* NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Retires After 27 Years.
* Pixxel Space Has Signed WITH IN Space India To Design, Build, And Operate India's National EO Satellite SYSTEM Along With Dhruva Space, SAT SURE
* Researchers From IIT KHARAGPUR Have Successfully Developed a Critical Boron Based Chemical For ISRO 's GAGANYAAN Mission -
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DEVELOPED -
* Bengaluru BASED AKASHLABDHI Set To Launch India's First Inflatable Space Habitat AntarikshHUB
* Astronomer Have Discovered A New Planet, 146 Light Years From Earth ( HD137010b)
FEBRUARY -
* Astronomer From ARIES Nainital And Department Of Science & Technology ( DST) Have Uncovered a Active Star Formation By Expanding Infrared Bubble Named - E71,
*Aditya Panda Became The Youngest Indian ( 17) To Analog Astronaut. (Conducted By AAKA space Studio Held At Dholavira, Kutch Gujarat)
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MARCH -
* Bengaluru Based Galax Eye Has Dispatched The World's First OptoSAR Satellite To Launched.
* Ahmedabad Based Pier Sight Has Successfully Completed The Testing Of It's VARUNA 2.0 Satellite Reflectarray Antenna At ISRO's Compact Antenna Test Range Facility ( CATF) In Ahmedabad
* Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) Has Signed MoU With Bellatrix Aerospace To Collaborate On The Design, Development And Manufacturing Of Satellite System
* * AHMEDABAD BASED START-UP OM SPACE HAS LAUNCHED GUJARAT FIRST SOUNDING ROCKET FROM DHOLERA
* Bengaluru Based New Space Has Successfully Flight Tested It's Sheshnag-20 Loitering Munition
* Researchers From ISRO (IIRS) Are Using Game Theory To Predict How Bengal Tigers Navigate Central India
* ISRO Successfully Conducted The Sea Level Hot Test Of The CE20 Cryogenic Engine At The ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendra Giri, Tamilnadu
* ISRO Has Received Akasha 300 3D Printer From Kerala Based Startup - Space Time 4D Printing Solution
* Indian startup AGNIKUL Cosmos Tested Fires 1 Meter Long Single Piece 3D Printed Agnite Engine
* European Union And India Have Concluded A Working Arrangement Between The European Aviation Safety Agency ( EASA) And The DIRECTORATE General Of Civil Aviation ( DGCA) Of India In The Field Of Industrial Aviation Production.
APRIL -
* India Russia Signed MoU On Lab To Fast Track Drone Satellite Talent
* Indian Astronomers DISCOVERD A Forbidden Alien Planet Exoplanet - TOI 5205
*Indian SPACE Research Organisation (ISRO) Launched Mission MITRA For Safety Of Human Spaceflight Mission Crew
* ISRO Successfully Accomplished The 2nd Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT - 02) For Gaganyaan At Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
ARTEMIS II ( MOON MISSION) -
* NASA LAUNCHED THE ARTEMIS II, FIRST CREWED MISSION TO THE MOON AFTER 57 YEARS ( APPOLLO 11 IN 1969)
* IT HAS LIFTED FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE, FLORIDA
* THIS 10 DAYS MISSION KICKED ON 2ND APRIL 2026
* ASTRONAUT REID WISEMAN, VICTOR GLOVER, CHRISTINA KOCH, AND CANADIAN ASTRONAUT HEREMY HANSEN
* CHRISTINA KOCH BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE TO MOON MISSION
ABOUT ASTRONAUT -
REID WISEMAN -
* Former Chief Of Astronaut Office
* Spent 165 Days Aboard In The ISS In 2014
JEREMY HANSEN -
* Canadian Astronaut And Former CF-18 Fighter Pilot SELECTED By Canadian Space Agency in 2009;
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VICTOR GLOVER -
*NASA Astronaut, US NAVY, AVIATOR
* Piloted Space X Crew - 1 To ISS
* Served As Flight Engineer On Expedition 64/65
* First Black Astronaut To Travel Beyond Low Earth Orbit
CHRISTINA KOCH -
* NASA ASTRONAUT
* SHE SPENT 328 CONSECUTIVE DAYS IN INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
* 328 days LONGEST SPENT BY A WOMAN IN ISS
* FIRST FEMALE ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON TO MOON
* NASA ARTEMIS II Set A New Record Reaching The Farthest Distance Humans Have Travelled From Earth ( Crossed 252,752 miles During Lunar Flyby Surpassing Apollo 13 Mission Record)
* ARTEMIS II Astronaut Name Lunar Crater Named After NASA Astronaut Reid WISEMAN 's Late Wife - Carroll Taylor WISEMAN
* The ARTEMIS II Crew Has Been Landed On Earth ( 10 Days Completed) ( Completed 690,000 Miles)
* Bengaluru Based New Space Has Successfully Tested Its Sheshnag -150 Loitering Munition.
* ISRO's Space Application Centre And The Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology And The Environment ( ATREE) Have Signed A MoU To Strengthen Collaboration In Research, Data Knowledge Exchange
* 51 Years Completed The India's First Own Satellite ARYABHATTA
* Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Has Inaugurated A State Of The Art Satellite Navigation INS SYSTEM ( G3INS) Testing Facility At Korwa Divison
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* Telengana Chief Minister Shri Revanth Reddy Along With Industries MINISTER D Sridhar Babu, Flagged Off The Flight Hardware Of Skyroot Aerospace VIKRAM -1 ( India's First Privately Developed ORBITAL Rocket)
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MAY -
GALAXEYE SPACE -
* GALAXEYE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED THE WORLD'S FIRST OptoSAR Satellite ( ALL WEATHER)
* IT IS THE LARGEST PRIVATELY BUILT SATELLITE IN INDIA,
* LAUNCHED FROM FALCON -9. BY SPACE X
* Skyroot Aerospace Has Raised USD 60 Million Valuation
* Mumbai Based Manastu Space Has Successfully Cleared The Thermovac Testing At IN -SPACE Facility At Ahmedabad
* ISRO Scientists Nandini Harinath's Saree, Which She Wore During Mangalyaan Mission Showcase At Prestigious Smithsonian Museum In US
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AWARDS -
* ISRO TEAM ( CHANDRAYAAN 3) Wins The Prestigious GODDARD Astronautics Award From The American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics
* Astronomers Spot A Blue Straggler Star Hosting Brown Dwarf
* Manipuri Astrophysicist Ronaldo Laishram Has Discovered A 12.6 billion Years Old Galaxy Structure ( Named After Manipur's LOKTAK Lake) LOKTAK PROTOCLUSTER
* Red Balloon Launched India's First Super Pressure Balloon, ( Payload Upto 50 Kg)
* ISRO's Chandrayaan -2 Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar ( DFSAR) Observation Revealed The Subsurface Ice In Lunar South Polar Regions
* Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter Is A Microwave Imaging Instrument In L And S-Band Frequencies And The First Fully Polari metric SAR To Study The Moon
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JUNE -
* IIT KANPUR Has Established India's First DORIS ( Doppler Orbitography And Radio positioning Integrated By satellite)
* Indian Astronaut P Balakrishnan Nair Has Awarded With Kirti Chakra
* Dhruva Space Has Received The SPACE STARTUP OF THE YEAR At The Indian Space Congress Excellence Award 2026
* ISRO Successfully Hot Tested The Semi Cryogenic Engine SE -'2000 At 175 Tons THRUST In MAHENDRAGIRI
* India Has Successfully Conducted It's First Satellite Based Landing System Approach On a Jet Aircraft, With An Indigo Airbus A320 Performing An LPV ( Localiser Performance With Vertical Guidance) Approach At Udaipur Airport
