India space program: Rocket launches, missions and news
India's space program is making giant leaps to the moon, Mars and beyond. See the latest missions, videos and news from the Indian Space Research Organisation here.
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![A rocket is seen headed to space in a beachy area.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aoSZHSBRiDAUbqx7KcBeXC-320-80.jpg)
India launches nation's 1st 3D-printed rocket engine
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
India's Agnikul Cosmos successfully launched a test vehicle powered by a homegrown 3D printed rocket engine.
![a tall nozel secured and held away from a wall with metal arms, spews fire downward into a cutout square. There is scaffolding and pipes around.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qVZfgnN8ePHAbMN9LLcY8H-320-80.jpg)
India makes breakthrough by test-firing new 3D-printed rocket engine (photo)
By Andrew Jones published
India recently performed a successful hot-fire test of a rocket engine that was built using 3D printing technology, a breakthrough that could boost the nation's spaceflight prospects.
![a small space plane comes in for a landing with brown hills in the background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dy8SN6EY25yceVA684gCoj-320-80.jpg)
Watch India's prototype space plane ace a landing test (video)
By Andrew Jones published
The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully carried out a landing test with its prototype space plane last week.
![An Indian Space Research Organisation GLSV-F14 rocket launches the powerful INSAT-3DS weather satellite to orbit from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota, India on Feb. 17, 2024 local time.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/knSnYZvGSBWrwpnqPEMmqC-320-80.png)
India launches powerful new weather satellite INSAT-3DS into orbit on 'naughty boy' rocket (video)
By Mike Wall last updated
India successfully launched its powerful new INSAT-3DS weather and disaster-warning spacecraft to orbit on Saturday morning (Feb. 17).
![An Indian PSLV rocket lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center on Jan. 1, 2024 local time, carrying the nation's XPoSat X-ray satellite.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yzg9HaeoxGVYGJY7cReHTR-320-80.jpg)
India launches X-ray satellite to study black holes, supernovas and more (video)
By Andrew Jones published
India sent its XPoSat X-ray observatory into orbit on New Year's Day to study black holes, supernovae and other cosmic phenomena.
![illustration showing four astronauts in white spacesuits exploring the moon.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Hny7Jk8DaFwHC4WxFSAQVU-320-80.jpg)
India sets sights on a moon base by 2047
By Andrew Jones published
India is setting long-term goals that could see the country establish its own moon base before 2050.
![a lander on the lunar surface](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pBXZzhwQ9vCV54uDEv9MAK-320-80.jpg)
India returns Chandrayaan-3 moon mission's propulsion module to Earth orbit
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
The spacecraft that ferried India's Chandrayaan-3 lander-rover duo to the moon has returned home to Earth orbit.
![a lander on the lunar surface](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pBXZzhwQ9vCV54uDEv9MAK-320-80.jpg)
After Chandrayaan-3 success, India gearing up for moon sample-return mission
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
India plans to bring moon samples back to Earth later in the 2020s with its Chandrayaan-4 mission.
![An illustration shows India's Aditya-L1 spacecraft as it investigates the sun](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dt9FEQwKg4awyaDhufkBN9-320-80.png)
India's Aditya-L1 sun probe spots 1st high-energy solar flare
By Rahul Rao published
India's newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays.
![the gray surface of the moon can be seen beside the leg of a lunar lander](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vXcGUrox23uMzRBRvnWYSe-320-80.jpg)
India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander kicked up a 'halo' of dust visible from space
By Rahul Rao published
Photos taken from lunar orbit show India's Chandrayaan-3 moon landing produced "ejecta halo," a huge ring-shaped plume of moon dust that the Vikram lander's thrusters left in the lunar soil.
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