ISRO conducted the static test of its largest solid fuel booster, the S200, which will launch heavier satellites using the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mk III).

Launch of GSLV-D3, using India’s first indigenous cryogenic engine, likely by end of December 2009.

India has successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C14) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (SHAR Range) in Andhra Pradesh, carrying as payload the country’s ocean-monitoring satellite named Oceansat-2.

The Indian government plans has earmarked Rs 289 billion for scientific research and development in 2009, a 19 per cent hike over spends in 2008.

ISRO has launched two new satellites into space, the RISAT-2, its first Radar Imaging satellite, and the ANUSAT, from Sriharikota, on April 20, 2009.

The three bacteria species have been named Bacillus Isronensis, Janibacter Hoylei & Bacillus Aryabhatta.

India has finally announced its plans to launch its first manned space mission in 2015.

The micro satellite being developed by IIT-Kanpur in association with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is in its final stages. The satellite has been named ‘Jugnu’. The satellite will be handed over to ISRO in November where it will be tested and launched.

Chandrayaan-1's Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer (C1XS) has successfully detected the first X-ray signature from the Moon.

Chandrayaan-1's Hyper-Spectral Imager (HySI) has sent moon imagery,  lunar craterlet BarrowH HySI image (64 Bands), and a strip (20 km across x 40 km along track) from the moon's equatorial region in 64 bands.