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Indian Space Research Organization

India · Government · EST. 1969

Indian Space Research Organization is a government launch operator based in India, founded in 1969. It has flown 101 launches under its own name. 86 succeeded and 15 failed, a success rate of 85.1%. Its next launch is LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad, set for November 2026.

SourceLAUNCH LIBRARY 2
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Page generated2026-11-11 10:41:31Z

Flight record

Launch statistics

ON RECORD
Total launches101
Successful86
Failed15
Success rate85.1%
Consecutive successes2
Scheduled20
AdministratorChairman: V. Narayanan
Founded1969

These are launches under ISRO’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, ISRO is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

Manifest role

LIVE COUNT
Flying as operator20
Named as customer0
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Scheduled (register total)20

No scheduled flight names ISRO with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore. Its vision is to "harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration."

Upcoming launches

The next 12 of 20 scheduled. All of them

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

ISRO in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

70th International Astronautical Congress
70th International Astronautical CongressNASA / HQ · public domainNASA ↗
70th International Astronautical Congress
70th International Astronautical CongressNASA / HQ · public domainNASA ↗
Moon Mapper Looks Homeward
Moon Mapper Looks HomewardNASA / JPL · public domainNASA ↗

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Common questions

How many launches has Indian Space Research Organization flown?
Indian Space Research Organization has flown 101 launches under its own name. 86 succeeded and 15 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
What is Indian Space Research Organization's success rate?
85.1%. That's 86 successful flights out of 101 attempts. Its last 2 launches in a row have succeeded.
When is Indian Space Research Organization's next launch?
LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1, set for November 2026 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad. Launch Library files only the month, so the date is a placeholder. Launch times are no-earlier-than targets and can move.
Does Indian Space Research Organization fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
Indian Space Research Organization has flown 101 launches under its own name. It's the operator on 20 scheduled flights. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
Where is Indian Space Research Organization based?
India. Launch Library lists it as a government operator, founded in 1969.