For the development of space research in India, the Atomic Energy Department of India established the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) under the leadership of Homi Jehangir Bhabha in 1962 AD. Vikram Sarabhai has played important role in the development of Indian space research programme, Many artificial satellites have been established in the earth’s orbit by Indian scientists. The first artificial satellite – Aryabhatta – was launched from Bakanoor space centre in the erstwhile Soviet Union a in the year 1975. From then up till now, many satellites have been launched into space.

Among these satellites, Bhaskar, Apple Insat, Rohini, IRS, Edusat, Himsat, Cartosat, Resource sat, Ocean sat, GSU, Moon Craft, Mars Craft are the major ones. A satellite named Moon Craft was launched in October 2008, in order to study the moon. In November 2013, a satellite named Mars Craft was launched in order to obtain information about the planet Mars and this satellite successfully entered into the orbit of Mars in September 2014. India has launched its first space observatory “Astro SAT” in space from Sri Harikota in October 2015. This will provide new information about the universe.