Space

1963: First sounding rocket launched from TERLS.

1975: First Indian Satellite, Aryabhata, launched.

1979: Bhaskara-1, an experimental satellite launched.

1981: APPLE, an experimental geostationary communication satellite successfully launched.

1981: Bhaskara-II launched.

1982: INSAT-1A launched.

1983: Second launch of SLV-3, RS-D2 placed in orbit, INSAT-1B launched.

1984: Indo-Soviet manned space mission.

1984: Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to reach space.

1988: First Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-1A launched.

1988: INSAT-1C launched.

1990: INSAT-1D launched successfully.

1991: Launch of second operational Remote Sensing satellite, IRS-1B.

1992: First indigenously built satellite INSAT-2A launched successfully.

1993: INSAT-2B launched.

1995: INSAT-2C launched.

1995: INSAT-2D launched.

2000: INSAT-3B was launched.

2000: INSAT-3c was launched.

2007: INSAT-4B successfully launched by Arianespace.

2007: PSLV-C8 successfully places an Italian satellite, AGILE into its orbit.

2007: INSAT-4CR was successfully placed in orbit.

2008: PSLV places Israeli satellite Tecsar on its orbit.

2008: PSLV-C9 successfully places 10 satellite in a single launch.

2008: India makes it to the moon with the unmanned Chandraayan 1.