Indigenous Launch Breakthrough Wall Art

Indigenous Launch Breakthrough — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Rohini RS-1 and SLV-3's successful maiden flight on 18 July 1980 made India the sixth nation — after the Soviet Union, United States, France, Japan, and China — capable of placing its own satellites in orbit. A. SLV-3 represented India's decisive break from dependence on Soviet Kosmos launchers for placing indigenous satellites in orbit. Abdul Kalam's leadership of the project bridged sounding-rocket heritage at Thumba with operational orbital capability at Sriharikota — the engineering culture that later produced PSLV's workhorse reliability and GSLV's geostationary ambitions.

Updated 14 Jun 2026