ISRO & SPACE CA IN JUNE 2026

* 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 

JANUARY TO MAY ISRO & SPACE CA IN 2026

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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JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER ISRO SPACE CA IN 2025

JANUARY - 

SPACE - 

* * Lucknow Based AEROLLOY Technologies Has Became India's First Private Company To Establish a Vacuum Arc Remelting (VAR) Furnace For Producing Aerospace Grade Titanium Alloy Inguts.

* ISRO Achieved The Milestone By Growing Cow pea Seed Sprouts In Space.

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Shri M Mohan Has Been Appointed As The Director Liquid Propulsion System Centre (LPSC).

FIRST IN - 

* ISRO Has Created History By Successfully Docked Two Satellites In Space Through SpaDex Mission. 

( India' Became The 4th Nation To Completed) 

* USA (1966) 

* USSR (1967) 

* CHINA (2011) 

* INDIA (2025) 

LAUNCHED - 

* ISRO Launched Its 100th Mission GSLV F-15/ NVS 02 Successfully At Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh on 29th January 2025.

PIXXEL - 

* Bengaluru Based Space Startup Pixxel Has Launched 3 Hyperspectral Satellites (India's First Private Satellite) 

* Hyderabad Based Startup Take Me 2 Space Has Successfully Demonstrated its MOI-TD (India's First AI LAB In Space) In ISRO's POEM-4 

FIND - 

* Astronomers At IIA Bengaluru Discovered A New Ultra Diffuse Galaxy Forming At The Tip Of The Galaxy With The longest Tidal Tail (1.27 m Light Years) NGC 3785 In Leo Constellation.

*  United States Space Force's Prime Fusion ( SPACE RCO)  Set To Join India's Digantara ( Space Startup).

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Appointment Committee Of The Cabinet Has Approved The Appointment Of V Narayanan, Director Of Liquid Propulsion System Center (LPSC) Valiamala As Secretary Department Of Space And Chairman, Space Commission For Two Years.

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LAUNCHED - 

* Mumbai Based Startup MANASTU SPACE Has Successfully Tested Its Indigenous VYOM 2U Green Propulsion System On Board ISRO's POEM-4 (PSLV C60 Mission)

* Belatrix Aero Has Successfully Tested The RUDRA 1.0  HPGP Propulsion System.

( Objective - To Demonstrate The High Performance Green Propulsion System 

*  Space Tech Startup MANASTU SPACE (By IIT BOMBAY) Has Successfully Tested The First Green Propulsion System VYOM 2 U Through PSLV C60 in Space.

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MOU - 

* Pixxel Inked With SI Imaging To Bring Hyper Spectral Satellite Data To Korea 

FEBRUARY - 

* ISRO Successfully Conducted The Vacuum Ignition Test Of Indigenous CE20 Cryogenic Engine At  Mahendra Giri, Tamilnadu.

* Former ISRO Chairman Dr S Somnath Has Been Elected To The Prestigious National Academy Of Engineers In USA.

*  Indian Space Association (ISA) Signed MoU With Korean Association For Space Technology Promotion (KASP) For Satellite Advanced System.

* India Has Successfully Tested The DROUGE PARACHUTE For The Gaganyaan Crew Module.

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FIRST IN - 

*  Satish Dhawan Space Center In Collaboration With The Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI) Has Successfully Designed 10 Ton Vertical Mixer, Largest In World.

TESTED - 

* Bengaluru Based Space New Space Research And Technologies Has Successfully Conducted The FIRST Flight Of indigenous SHESHNAAG 150 UAV 

PERSON PASSED AWAY - 

* FORMER ISRO SCIENTIST R MANCIKA VASAGAM PASSED AWAY.

* HE LED THE TEAM WHERE INDIA'S FIRST 3 AXIS STABILISED EXPERIMENTAL GEO STATIONERY SATELLITE - APPLE 

* RECEIVED PADMA SHRI IN 1982 

 AWARDS - 

* PROFESSOR DR ISOBEL HOOK From LANCASTER University HAS BEEN AWARDED THE 2025 CAROLINE HERSCHEL MEDAL FOR HER WORK IN  DISTANT SUPERNOVAE AND THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE.

MARCH - 

* A Recent Study Reveals That High Electron Density Of -23000 Electrons/ cm3 in The Lunar Environment When The Moon Enters Earth's Geomagnetic Tail By Chandrayaan 2.

* ISRO ( Indian Space Research Organization ) Has Earned $143 Million From Foreign Satellites Launched Since 2015.

* ISRO Successfully Conducted The Flight Acceptance Test Of CE-20 For LV M3 - M6 Mission.

* ISRO SpaDex Became The 4th To Have Docking Successfully In The Orbit.

* SCL, Mohali Invented The 32 Bit Microprocessor Developed For Space Application - VIKRAM 3201 & KALPANA 3201 (FOR ISRO) 

* Scientists From IISC BENGALURU Have Reported Observation Of Flareless CME From Solar Atmosphere With Visible Emissions Line Coronagraph (VELC) Instrument Onboard Aditya L1 Mission.

* ISRO Has Indigenously Developed The Titanium Alloy Personnel Sphere Of The MASTYA - 6000 ( SAMUDRAYAN) Deep See Submersible.

FIRST IN - 

* Bengaluru Based Startup DIGANTARA Has Commissioned The World's First Commercial Space Surveillance Satellite (SCOT).

*  Union Cabinet Has Approved The ISRO- JAXA CHANDRAYAAN -5 Lu/PEX Mission.

*  Bengaluru Based Pixxel Has Released The First Ever Image Captured By Firefly Hyperspectral Satellite.

MOU - 

*  Reliance Jio And Bharti Airtel Has Partners With Space X To Introduced The Starlink Satellite.

APRIL - 

* * ISRO To Establish Infrastructure For Space Related Activities In Assam. 

* ISRO Has Inaugurated The New Advanced Landing Gear Drop Testing Facility At VSSC Kerala.

* Dr Nikku Madhusudan The Indian Origin Scientist Has Found Evidence Of Life in 120 Years Light Years Away From Earth.

* ISRO Develops Indigenous Satellite Nozzle Divergent For PSLV.

* The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Has Achieved Another Milestone With Its Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) Satellite.

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MAY - 

* ISRO Has Signed a Joint Statement Of Intent With ESA To Collaborate On Human Spaceflight 

* ISRO Launched The Earth Observation Satellite EOS -09 Abroad The PSLV C-61 From Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

(101ST SATELLITE FROM ISRO) 

* ISRO Chief Announced 2025 As GAGANYAAN Year.

SPACE - 

* Agnikul Cosmos Has Successfully Firing Of India's First Electric Motor Driven Semi Cryogenic Engine.

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JUNE - 

* Nellai Su Muthu, Former ISRO Scientist And Author Of 70+ Books Passed away.

* ISRO Release A Comprehensive Flood Atlas Of Assam, Created Using 26 Years Of Satellite data Between 1998-2023.

AXIOM-4 LAUNCHED - 

Axiom Space, ISRO And NASAE Successfully Launched The AXIOM 4.

* After 41 Years An Indian After Rakesh Sharma, Group Captain Subhranshu Shukla Fly To Space.

FIRST TO - 

* Janhavi Dangeti, India's Youngest Analogue Astronaut elected For Historic 2029 Low Earth Orbit Expedition. ( FROM ANDHRA PRADESH) 

* Indian Space Association Association (ISPA) Has Signed MoU With INFOTER ( Hungary) To Boost India - Hungary Space Collaboration 

JULY - 

*  DHRUVA Space Has Been Awarded The Economic Times HR World EX Award For Exceptional Employee Experience Startup.

* CHANG 'E-6 Mission Has Won The 2025 IAF World Space Award.

* ISRO HAS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED THE GSLV-F16 ROCKET WITH NISAR SATELITE. (FROM SATISH DHAWAN SPACE CENTER SRIHARIKOTA, ANDHRA PRADESH) 

* NASA Astronaut And Microbiologist Kate Rubins Retired After 16 Long Years Career.

* She Logging 300 Days In Space Walk 

* ON 30TH JULY 2025 NISAR WAS LAUNCHED.

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* * ISRO CHAIRMAN DR V NARAYANAN RECEIVED PRESTIGIOUS THE GP BIRLA MEMORIAL AWARD 2025 

AUGUST - 

 INAUGURATION - 

* Dr V Narayanan, Chairman ISRO And Secretary Department Of Space Formally Inaugurated ISRO 's High Altitude Analog Mission HOPE in 31st July 2025.

*  ISRO Unveiled Model Of BHARATIYA ANTARIKSH Station. 

* ISRO Has Successfully Accomplished The First Integrated AIR Drop Test Of GAGANYAN. 

DHRUVA SPACE FIRST COMMERCIAL SATELLITE LAUNCHED - 

* * DHRUVA SPACE FIRST COMMERCIAL SATELLITE LAUNCHED BY SPACE X ON FALCON 9 

* THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SATELLITE ( LEAP -1) LAUNCHED ON 27TH AUGUST 2025.

* INDIGENOUSLY DEVELOPED P-30 SATELLITE PLATFORM FLY TWO DISTINCT MISSION - 

a) AKULA Tech's Nexus -01 MISSION Comprising on Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model. ( AUSTRALIA SPACE ) 

b) Akula Tech's Esperesso Hyperspectral Imager Developed By Esper Satellite For OTR -2 

NEW MOON OF URANUS - 

* S/2025 U1 Moon Has Been DISCOVERED By TELESCOPE OF URANUS 

* 29TH MOON OF URANUS LISTED 

* MOON LIKE MIRANDA, ARIEL, UMBRIEL, TITANIA, OBERON ETC. 

TESTED - 

* ISRO SUCCESSFULLY Tested The KALAM 1200- Solid Motor - The First Stage Of Vikram -1 Launch Vehicle By Skyroot Aerospace Private Limited - At Satish Dhawan Space Centre 

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* Agnikul Cosmos Build World's Largest Single Piece 3D Printed Rocket Engine.

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AWARDS - 

* Pascale Ehrenfreund, President Of Committee Of Space Research (COSPAR) & Research Professor, Space policy Institute, George Washington University, Has Received The 2025 IAF Excellence In International Cooperation AWARD.

*  A Team Of International Scientist has Identified Rare Quadruple Star System In Milk way Named - UPM J1040-3551 Aabbab.

SEPTEMBER - 

* Indian Space Startup Catalyx Space Has Successfully Conducted The 2nd Drop Test Of REX Capsule.

* PRATUSH ( Probing Reionization Of The Universe Using Signal From Hydrogen) The First Of Kind, Proposed Future Radiometer In The Lunar Orbit, 

* HAL, IN-space, ISRO and NSIL HAVE Signed A Technology Transfer Agreement For The Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) In Bengaluru.

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DEVELOPED - 

* Pune Based Astrophel Aerospace Has Successfully Developed CRYO PUMP At ISRO Facilities.

* Chennai Based Orbit Aid Aerospace Has Inaugurated The Research And Development Facility In Bengaluru.

* Astronomers Have Discovered A New Neighbour Of Earth Called - ARJUNA Asteroid 2025 PN7 ( Earth's Latest Quashi - Satellite) 

* Chennai Based Agnikul Cosmos Has Commissioned India's First Large Format Additive Manufacturing Facility For Aerospace And Rocket System 

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