Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan)

Known popularly as Mangalyaan, the Mars Orbiter Mission was India's first venture beyond Earth orbit — built and launched in under two years to study Mars's surface, atmosphere, and mineral composition.

It entered Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, on its first attempt — making ISRO the fourth space agency to reach Mars, and the first in the world to succeed on a maiden attempt.