ISRO of India created many history in the world of space, but the Pakistani space agency Suparco lagged behind.
India and Pakistan were liberated together due to the slavery of the British. While Pakistan celebrates the anniversary of its independence on 14 August, India celebrates Independence Day on 15 August every year. After getting freedom in the year 1947, India has achieved success in every direction. While traveling from floor to hail, India is waving in space. At the same time, Pakistan has been doing politics of protest instead of its progress, due to which it went backward in every field.
Let us know how the space program started in both countries after independence, how did India create history in space and why Pakistan backward?
How did India’s space program start?
When India got independence, the situation was not good. The situation was so pathetic that the country did not have enough grains to eat the countrymen. Despite this, India became self -sufficient in every field, facing challenges and eventually started traveling space. It is a matter of the year 1962. The Indian National Space Research Committee (Incospar) was established in the country with the inspiration of India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. With this, India’s space trip started and for the first time in 1963, India launched the sounding rocket before Thumba and formally started its space program.
The Indian Space Research Organization was established on August 5, 1969 (Incospar) to achieve success in the field of technology. In order to provide further strength, in 1972, the Space Commission and the Department of Space were formed and ISRO was made under the Department of Space. Since then, India has been a new record of success in space.
On 19 April 1975, ISRO launched the first indigenous satellite from Aryabhata Russia.
Start with Aryabhatta
ISRO launched the first indigenous satellite Aryabhata from Russia on 19 April 1975. Although it was only an experimental satellite, it laid a strong foundation of India’s space program. It took India three years without resources to build this 360 kg satellite and it cost more than three crore rupees. However, after this, India did not look back and in 1980, along with successfully testing the SLV-3 rocket, he wrote its name in the list of countries which were capable of launching satellites.
Rohini Satellite RS-1 was first launched from SLV-3. In 1983, by launching INSAT-1B, India revolutionized the world of communication, telecast and weather forecasting. Then in 1994, the launch of PSLV was successful, so India’s ability to launch satellite increased further. Now it has carried out more than 50 missions.
Name his satellite on the moon, reached Mars as well
On 22 October 2008, India launched the Chandrayaan-1 mission, creating another history in space which reached the moon on 14 November 2008. With this, India became the fourth country in the world to reach the moon. Water was discovered on the moon through Chandrayaan-1. Then in the year 2014, India spent only Rs 450 crore and stepped on Mars. India became the first country by reaching Mangalyaan to Mars, which had achieved this success in the first attempt.
India launched the Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008.
India went on to make a record
ISRO set a record of launching 104 satellites simultaneously from PSLV-C37 on 15 February 2017. In June this year (2017), India launched its heaviest rocket GSLV MK 3, which successfully took 3136 kg satellite GSAT-19. In April 2018, India launched the navigation satellite and made the GPS of America equal. In March 2019, India launched an anti -satellite mission and became the fourth country to destroy the satellite in space.
In July 2019, India launched the Chandrayaan-2 mission as part of an attempt to take another step on the moon. This mission, launched from Bahubali Rocket GSLV-Mark-3, has been unsuccessful, but it is also considered to be the achievement of the country.
Launch world’s most expensive satellite
India once borrowed a small rocket from America. Now the same India is launching the satellite of the US space agency NASA, known worldwide. Just on July 30 (30 July 2025), India has launched the most expensive satellite worldwide with joint undertakings of ISRO and NASA.
NASA-Israo Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) has been launched with GSLV-F-16 rocket. Its total weight is 2600 kg. 12505 crore has been spent on this satellite of NASA and ISRO. Soon ISRO is going to launch the US 6500 kg communication satellite (Communication Satellite).
Pakistan’s first rocket Rehbar-1, which was launched in 1962.
Pakistan started before India, then why laggard?
Pakistan started its space program before India. Pakistan formed its space agency Suparko in the year 1961. At the same time, ISRO was established in the year 1969. In 1962, Suparco launched a rocket named Rehbar-1 with the help of American Space Agency NASA and allowed Pakistan to become the 10th country in the world. In 1990, Pakistan launched its first satellite with the help of Badar-1 China. After this, Pakistan’s space program went backward.
In fact, in the 1970s, Pakistan diverted attention from the space program and focused on nuclear weapons. Due to this, Pakistan, which is facing the same economic crisis, started cutting the funds and resources of Suparko. Apart from this, due to lack of education, even talented scientists like ISRO could not prepare Pakistan. Suparco could not even prepare his launch vehicle.
The biggest weakness of the biggest Pakistan is that Pakistan has entrusted the responsibility of the space agency to the military officers instead of scientists. Then, like every region, Pakistan is sitting in space in space. With the help of that, Pakistan has launched three satellites in recent years and now with the help of China, he is dreaming of sending its first astronaut in the year 2026. Talking about the total achievements of Suparko, it has launched only six satellites so far. In most of these, China helped Pakistan. At the same time, India is independently launching its satellite, the satellite of a country like America is also sending it to space.
India has sent two astronauts
India has sent two astronauts so far. India’s first astronaut was Rakesh Sharma, who was sent to space on 3 April 1984 with the help of Soviet Union. Fighter pilot Rakesh Sharma traveled to space from Soyuz T-11 and stayed in space for seven days and 40 minutes. After him, India sent another fighter pilot wing commander Shubhanshu Shukla to the international space station. Shubhanshu, who is going to the international space station, is the first Indian astronaut, who has just returned on 18 July (July 2025). He stayed there for a total of 18 days and did many research.
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