ISRO honoured with Outstanding Achievement Award at CNN-News18 Indian of The Year 2023

The Outstanding Achievement Special Indian of the Year 2023 award has been awarded to Team ISRO. Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh presented the award to ISRO Chairman S Somanath and Chandrayaan-3 project director P Veeramuthuvel on Wednesday. “The whole space sector is now unfurled out in terms of the long-term vision for the next 25 years. This is the support and I can’t ask for more," said Somanath, while thanking the minister as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi. INSAT had an excellent 2023. The space agency’s lunar craft Chandrayaan-3 created history by being the first to settle close to the lunar south pole, and it also successfully performed a soft landing on the moon. Another incredible accomplishment was the arrival of ISRO’s Aditya-L1 at Lagrange Point 1, where it would be able to observe the sun continually. Currently, ISRO is concentrating on India’s manned spaceflight program, Gaganyaan. The CNN-News18 Indian of the Year program, now in its 13th year, honors Indians who have made noteworthy contributions to a variety of professions and who have had a significant influence on the country. CNN-News18 Indian of the Year, which was established in 2006, has established itself as the largest honors in the field of news television and is widely recognized. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra, cricket player Virat Kohli, the Indian women’s cricket team, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), music legend AR Rahman, chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, boxer MC Mary Kom, actress Deepika Padukone, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal are just a few of the notable individuals who have received the Indian of the Year award over the years.