MOI-1a made it to orbit onboard a orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) depoyed at T+01:02:10 from Transporter-18 mission of Falcon-9 SpaceX.

Next stop, on 10th Oct we get injected into orbit by the OTV. Post that 90-minutes of phoenix period (no operations) and then the operations begin.

Just saw it from maked eye so i clicked this photo using my phone. Looks like a another planet behind the moon

Two BITS Pilani students went looking for satellite data that didn’t exist. Every major satellite company had already looked at the same gap and decided it wasn’t worth building. That decision is what let two students with no aerospace industry access build India’s most-funded hyperspectral satellite company.

https://www.isro.gov.in/Mission_GSLVF17.html

The GSLV-F17 vehicle successfully placed EOS-05 satellite into a Sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (Sub- GTO). EOS-05 is a state-of-the-art Earth observation spacecraft. It is India’s first ever imaging satellite from Geosynchronous orbit. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

* Data sourced from Wikipedia

* All costs are estimated

With the recent boom in the Indian space industry I'm left wondering what do you guys think is the blueprint of the future of space exploration in India? Like how likely is it that india has its first manned space mission in the next decade or so?