"The civil works commenced at the SSLV Launch Complex at Kulasekarapattinam including the launch pad facility and is targeted for readiness by August 2026 and an orbital launch from the facility by the end of this year." - ISRO

ISRO: "We are in the final phase of the first uncrewed (Gaganyaan) mission. All propulsion tests have been completed for human rating... (1/3)

PSLV-C62 / EOS-N1 (Anvesha) official mission page and gallery is up! ISRO mentions 15 co-passenger satellites, so two satellites likely have been moved to a different mission. KID Capsule will be the last payload to be injected for south pacific re-entry.

🚀 PSLV-C62 / EOS-N1 (Anvesha): 12th January Launch date has been officially announced! PSLV in its DL configuration is scheduled to lift off from First Launch Pad (FLP) on Monday, 12th January 10:17 AM IST. Comeback flight for PSLV after failure in the previous mission (C61).

🛰️ In two years, ISRO has collected 23 TB worth of data from Aditya-L1 mission, available in public domain. On 2nd anniversary of probe's L1 point insertion, ISRO has invited scientific proposals from Indian research community to use VELC and SUIT payloads for observations from April to June 2026.

Quite amazing how we just had SpaDex mission last January and now we already have two 🇮🇳 start-ups, working on similar technologies & getting close to their targets. AayulSAT by OrbitAID is set to be India's first on-orbit refuelling mission aboard PSLV-C62 / EOS-N1, ahead of ISRO themselves!

NGLV Philosophy: ISRO is adopting a new model for production of its NGLV launchers with involvement of industry partners right from the beginning. With core philosophy being Modularity, Recoverability and Reusability. Requirement of Modularity has been there since the ULV proposal days. (1/6)

> Jan-Feb 2025: Part of ISRO's SpaDeX mission > July 2025: Founded Cosmoserve Space Former ISRO scientist & former member of Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) Chiranjeevi Phanindra's start-up aims to mitigate space debris and revive dead satellites.

🛰️ ISRO's Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM) is targeted for Q1 2028 launch as per VEXAG 2025 presentation on VSAR & VARTISS by Sriram Saran Bhiravarasu. The probe is set to use aerobraking akin to Magellan and Venus Express (experimental) to lower its orbit.

🛰️ Pixxel, the Indian hyperspectral satellite imagery start-up is in talks for US$ 55-60 Million (₹ ~500 Cr.) investment from Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Zomato ltd. (now Eternal) reports MoneyControl. Previously, the company had raised US$ 90 Million.

ISRO conducts a static test of SS3, the SSLV's third stage 🔥 SS3 is now made lighter with the Carbon-epoxy Motor case, which has improved the SSLV's payload capacity by 90kg. It can now deliver 465kg to 500km LEO (45° Inclination).

PSLV-C62 / EOS-N1 (Anvesha): As per Telugu media reports, PSLV has been integrated up to all of its 4 stages. It will be then moved to Mobile Service Tower (MST) for further integration with payload, which is encapsulated within fairing. It is targeted for launch on 10th January, per latest NOTAM.

Third launch pad (TLP): ISRO is currently in the procurement phase and is trying to identify the right vendors for the construction as per Padmakumar ES, director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. TLP is set to open in 4 years ahead of planned development of NGLV.

PSLV-C62 now has a new date starting on 10 January 2026. Timings remain unchanged. #ISRO #PSLV

Updates on upcoming tests under Gaganyaan Programme, space suit and H1. Thanks to the RTI filed by RG Hegde.

Chandrayaan-5 / LuPEX: ISRO delegation headed by Project Director P. Jayasimha visited Japan for a meet with JAXA members. They shared each agency's development schedule on and timings of each test on Chandrayaan-5 Lander (ISRO) and LuPEX Rover (JAXA).

All ISRO launches in 2025. See you in 2026 for HLVM3-G1, PSLV-N1, SSLV-L1 and more! 🫡

LVM3M6 / AST BlueBird Block-2 Onboard Views by ISRO

It keeps getting more historic for ISRO!! 🇮🇳🔥 > LVM3's delivers a best ever performance with <2km orbital dispersion (518.5 km). > Electromechanical Actuation control system for S200 Boosters was inducted for the first time.

MISSION SUCCESSFULL!! LVM3 MAINTAINS 100% RECORD!! 🔥

100TH ORBITAL LAUNCH FROM INDIA!!! QUEEN LVM3 LIFTS-OFF 🇮🇳

🇮🇳 ONE HOUR AWAY! LVM3-M6 / BlueBird Block-2 is exactly an hour away from lift-off! Catch the live stream on ISRO's official YouTube channel. #ISRO #LVM3M6 #LVM3

ISRO chief V. Narayanan apparently carried a miniature replica of LVM3 rocket to Tirupati temple for offering prayers prior to launch of LVM3 M6 / AST BlueBird Block-II per PTI. 📷 PTI

“We don’t have a set date for it (Agnibaan's first orbital launch), but we’re readying it, which will have commercial clients for next year. In the next two years, we’ll likely scale up to 12-15 launches per year, and by 2030, hope to see 100 launches per year."

🇮🇳 Skyroot Aerospace is currently working on three Vikram-1 vehicles, first of which is scheduled for an orbital launch in February 2026, for which they are setting up their systems at Sriharikota simultaneously.

T-3 Days for LVM3 M6 / AST BlueBird Block-II ⏳

Good morning! 🇮🇳 LVM3 M6 / 🇺🇸 AST BlueBird mission has been officially confirmed by ISRO for 24 December 2025 8:54 AM IST (3:24 AM UTC / 10:24 PM EST), #ISRO has created a mission page and for the first time have also mentioned #LVM3 's updated GTO performance of 4,200 kg.

LVM3 M6 / AST BlueBird Block-II launch date confirmed: 24th December 2025 8:54 AM IST.

⚠️ ISRO's IRNSS / NAVIC programme is just a single atomic clock failure away (most likely on IRNSS-1F) to see a complete collapse of the constellation, India will thus lose navigational independence.

🇮🇳 Bellatrix Aerospace is preparing to scale up and plans to eventually establish a five acre large satellite propulsion system manufacturing facility near Bengaluru Airport, which would be capable of producing hundreds of systems a year as per latest interview by Times of India.

PSLV C62 / EOS-N1 (Anvesha): Latest NOTAM pushes the launch to the first week of January 2026. The window is open from 5th to 23rd January 2026. A splashdown zone is marked in the South Pacific Ocean for the PS4 and Kestrel Initial Demonstrator (KID) capsule's re-entry.

🛰️ Digantara has raised US$ 50 million (~₹451 Cr.) in series B funding reports Entrackr. It is a space surveillance and intelligence start-up founded in 2018 by Anirudh Sharma, now operating across India, Singapore and United States.

🛰️ Indian Space and Defence start-up Sisir Radar has secured US$ 7 million (~ ₹ 63.5 Crores) in series A funding reports ETV Bharat. The company is developing India's first private L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite for all-weather high-resolution imagery. 📷 Sisir Radar

🛰️ LVM3 M6 / AST BlueBird: The satellite has been encapsulated with the launch date to be announced in the coming days, however a Telugu media reports for a 21st December launch. Launch window is open from 20th Dec to 9th Jan. 📸 AST Space Mobile

"It (Vikram-1) should clear the tower." Co-founder Bharat Daka told IndiaToday that Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 has reached Satish Dhawan Space Centre where the 4 stage Vikram-I is currently undergoing integration and assembly.

“India has to ensure that we develop our own entity in space instead of doing the work for others. Upcoming projects like the Gaganyaan & Chandrayaan will prove India’s capabilities to the rest of the world.” - Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair at 2025 Kerala Startup Mission.

Excited for this one. God speed.

Mapped #SSLVLaunchComplex. As per latest update, land acquisition has been completed, site prep is completed and construction of the technical facilities and launch pad are in progress. The commissioning of the Kulasekarapattinam spaceport is targeted during FY 2026-27. #ISRO

Updated locations of #Chandrayaan landing sites. Sample return mission CY-4's potential landing region is updated from 90-85° S to 84-86° S per latest update via Parliamentary Q&A. #ISRO

Chandrayaan-3 Vikram's landing legs (LLLM) now available for tech transfer :3

🇮🇳 Shubhanshu Shukla - "After Rakesh Sharma's mission, we had to wait 41 years. But now, the ecosystem for human spaceflight is being built within India itself, allowing students to dream of becoming astronauts and actually achieve that dream."

The cost breakdown of #NASA - #ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar ( #NISAR ): 🇺🇸 United States: $1.2 billion (₹ 10,787 Cr.) 🇮🇳 India: $94 million (₹ 844 Cr.) - Satellite Development: $56 million (₹ 504.78 Cr.) - #GSLV Launch: $38 million (₹ ~340 Cr.)

Analysis of the #ISRO 's #Chandrayaan-3 lander data obtained from data from August 23, 2023 to September 03, 2023 has yielded significant, first-of-its-kind of results. The electrical environment near the Moon's surface at the South Polar Region is far more active than previously understood.

🇮🇳 ISRO's Aditya-L1 joined forces with six 🇺🇸 NASA satellites: Wind, ACE, THEMIS-C, STEREO-A, MMS and DSCOVR. For the first time, researchers could study the Sun's strongest geomagnetic storm (named “Gannon’s storm”) since 2003 from multiple vantage points in space.

LVM3 M6 / AST BlueBird: Latest NOTAM pushes the earliest launch date by five days to 20th December 2025 from earlier 15th. The window is open until 9th January 2026.

🇮🇳🇪🇸 PSLV-C62 / EOS-N1 (Anvesha) will be carrying a Spanish start-up Orbital Paradigm's 25kg reusable Kestrel Initial Demonstrator (KID) capsule. 🧵

Kinda feels cool (and lonely) that I'm the only active Indian spaceflight creator on the entire Blue Sky. Especially when there's a 1.4 Billion of us.

#PSLVC62 / EOS-N1 (Anvesha): The next #PSLV mission will be happening in the window from 25 December 2-25 to 23 January 2026 as per the latest NOTAM. #ISRO

"We've decided on a 51.6° inclination angle for our Russian Orbital Station (ROS) space station. Previously, we were considering a 96° inclination angle." - Dmitry Bakanov #Roscosmos drops plans of 96° polar orbit for 51.6° akin to upcoming #ISRO 's Bharatiya Antariksha Station (BAS).

On this day last year, we got this gorgeous shot of Vapour Cone on PSLV-C59 / PROBA-3 Mission 🚀