Description: ISRO’s new satellite might soon double as your next passport photo booth.
India has launched yet another satellite, and somewhere in the cosmos, aliens are Googling “What’s with all the selfies?” With the successful launch of NVS-01 by ISRO and a still-warm launchpad from previous missions, India seems to be speed-running the space race like your cousin binge-watching a UPSC syllabus. At this rate, the moon might soon file a restraining order for being over-visited.
The NVS-01, part of a navigation satellite series, may not have the flashy drama of Chandrayaan, but it’s the kind of dependable friend who’ll never get you lost between Nehru Place and Lajpat Nagar. It’s India’s homegrown GPS, ensuring that you can now find your way to the best momo stall in Delhi without relying on Google telling you to “make a U-turn at eternity.”
ISRO’s quiet competence has turned these cosmic moments into routine—sometimes people don’t even know a launch just happened, like a WhatsApp forward you accidentally ignore. There were years when we marvelled at every launch, holding our breath, and now it’s become like watching a cricket toss: “Oh, they launched another one? Cool.” Next up, a PayTM sat-nav subscription model where Bhaiya’s voice guides you in space: “Chand pe seedha jao, fir Prithvi pe right lo.”
Underneath the jokes, though, ISRO’s unassuming glow-up is actually magical. For every kid in a Delhi government school doodling spaceships instead of paying attention to Shastri-era economics, this is real hope in orbit. We’re no longer trying to impress the world—we’re navigating it with our own systems, literally. While global powers are having existential crises about AI overlords and losing their parked satellites, India is quietly parking theirs like pros in Lajpat Nagar’s Sunday market.
It’s a rare instance where you can root for both humility and audacity. So here’s a wild suggestion—host one of these launches like a music festival. Put the countdown on Spotify. Let Vir Das do the commentary. Send a pani-puri seller to space just so we can claim the first chaat in zero gravity.
Because if there’s one thing India proves with these launches, it’s this: we don’t just aim for the sky. We now provide directions too.
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