attached with two blue coloured satellite panels with the name of ISRO written in two sets of text, orange-coloured Devanagari on the left and blue-coloured English in the Prakrta typeface on the right. Goals and objectives ISRO is the national space agency of India for the purpose of all space-based applications like reconnaissance, communications and doing research. It undertakes the design and development of space rockets, satellites, explores upper atmosphere and deep space exploration missions. ISRO also has incubated its technologies in India's private space sector, boosting its growth. Sarabhai said in 1969: The former president of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, said: India's economic progress has made its space programme more visible and active as the country aims for greater self-reliance in space technology. In 2008, India launched as many as 11satellites, including nine from other countries, and went on to become the first nation to launch 10satellites on onerocket. ISRO has put into operation two major satellite systems: the Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) for communication services, and the Indian Remote Sensing Programme (IRS) satellites for management of natural resources. Organisation structure and facilities ISRO is managed by the DOS, which itself falls under the authority of the Space Commission and manages the following agencies and institutes: Indian Space Research Organisation Antrix Corporation – The marketing arm of ISRO, Bengaluru Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Gadanki, Andhra Pradesh NewSpace India Limited – Commercial wing, Bengaluru North-Eastern Space Applications Centre (NE-SAC), Umiam Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram – India's space university Research facilities Test facilities Construction and launch facilities Tracking and control facilities Human resource development Antrix Corporation Limited (Commercial Wing) Set up as the marketing arm of ISRO, Antrix's job is to promote products, services and technology developed by ISRO. NewSpace India Limited (Commercial Wing) Set up for marketing spin-off technologies, tech transfers through industry interface and scale up industry participation in the space programmes. Space Technology Incubation Centre ISRO has opened Space Technology Incubation Centres (S-TIC) at premier technical universities in India which will incubate startups to build applications and products in tandem with the industry and would be used for future space missions. The S-TIC will bring the industry, academia and ISRO under one umbrella to contribute towards research and development (R&D) initiatives relevant to the Indian Space Programme. S-TICs are at the National Institute of