India in space

ISRO, live and to scale

Every Indian satellite at work right now, where it is this second, and the long, patient routes ISRO flies to reach the Moon, Mars and the Sun.

01 · Overhead now

India's satellites, live

02 · The long way round

ISRO's journeys, to scale

ISRO's rockets are modest, so its deep-space missions take the patient route: loop after loop round the Earth, each burn stretching the orbit further, until one last push sends the craft on its way. Every orbit here is drawn at its real size.