, The Indian space programme continued to make forays in development of new technologies during the year 2006 with the successful ground testing of the indigenous cryogenic stage for GSLV, good progress made in the GSLV-Mk III project and demonstration of Supersonic Combustion Ramjet (SCRAMJET).
The Commercial activities picked up momentum with the winning of two contracts for building communications satellites for European customers jointly with EADS, France.
Space exploration mission got further fillip with Chandrayaan-1 mission making substantial progress and ISRO agreeing to carry two US-NASA instruments on board the spacecraft in addition to its own five primary instruments and three instruments of European Space Agency and one from Bulgaria.
As an important strategy for establishing an indigenous and independent satellite navigation system, the government approved in May 2006, the establishment of Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS).
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Space applications continued to expand reaching the benefits of space technology to a wider cross section of the society. The EDISAT network has expanded to 33 nodes connecting about 10.000 classrooms. ISRO
