Here are all notable articles and blog posts I’ve published on India’s largely successful—but also very opaque—space program, including all of its planetary missions. I keep updating any evergreen posts within this list, and will maintain the list itself for the convenience of readers, so make sure to bookmark the web version of this page.

Missions

• Space science missions ISRO will launch in the near future

• India’s Shukrayaan orbiter to study Venus for over four years

• What we know about India's Chandrayaan 3 Moon landing mission

• Looking back at Chandrayaan 1 and forward to Artemis

• The Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution map of the Moon

• Chandrayaan 2, India’s first mission to attempt a Moon landing

  • Chandrayaan 2’s landing failure and the road ahead

• Reviewing Mangalyaan, India’s first Mars mission

• Preparing for India’s Yuri Gagarin moment with Gaganyaan (old piece but some information on progress to that point is still relevant)

Science

• How NASA and India discovered water on the Moon

• India’s Astrosat and NASA’s Chandra co-discover a rapidly spinning black hole

• India’s Chandrayaan 2 lunar orbiter is also a Sun watcher

• Initial lunar science results from the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter

Opinion

• India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?

  • Debate: Mangalyaan’s low science output still reflects on ISRO

• Book review: Those magnificent women and their stories that must be told

• ISRO needs night survival technologies for future Moon missions and beyond

Interesting bits

• Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the new Moon race

• Views of Mars from India's Mangalyaan orbiter

• How Chandrayaan 1 viewed a solar eclipse from the Moon

• Explainer – Why did it take so long to find the Chandrayaan 2 lander?

Personal angle

• I saw a rocket launch!

• Space Q&A with r/India redditors

• Tangent: Kids in South Korea and a Moon mission

In all, the Indian space trajectory looks very promising and exciting. I can’t wait to write more about it, and do my bit in pushing Indian space, and therefore global space exploration too, forward. :D

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