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ISRO- A JOURNEY FROM IMPOSSIBLE TO POSSIBLE

INDIAN SPACE RESERACH ORGANIZATION(ISRO)  On April 1st 2019, the Indian Space Research Organization - ISRO - deployed an intelligence satellite EMISAT along with 28 customer satellites. This April launch comes two years after ISRO launched a record breaking 104 satellites on a single rocket, an event that both the international news media and the space community looked at very carefully. Source: Indian Space Research Organisation / Public domain Since its conception in 1969, ISRO has completed a total of 185 missions and is fast becoming one of the most effective and competitive space agencies in the world. It has also become an important cog in the wheel of India's future prosperity, and technological and scientific progress. Indian Space Program began in an era when the country was rife with internal problems of poverty, hunger, and illiteracy. So how did ISRO manage to make it one of the most successful Space Programs on the planet? Before we get into that, wh...