India’s major space research achievements:

Aryabhata (1975): India brought it’s first satellite to space research.

SLV-3 (1980) launched Rohini Satellite RS-1; India proudly joining the team of one sixth country to send satellite through its own built up launch vehicle.

Chandrayaan-1 (2008): first Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan that has detected water molecules on the surface of the moon.
-Mangalyaan (2014): India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) entered into Martian orbit; India becomes the first Asian country, and first country in the world to do so on the first try.
-Chandrayaan-3 (2023): Successfully place a spacecraft near the lunar south pole, in thereby India becoming the fourth country to attain a soft landing on the Moon and the first to do it near the south pole.

Comparison with Other Nations:

Despite this great success, Indian space program is relatively nascent when compared with more advanced space faring nations such as US, Russia, China or Europe. These nations have of experience of decades and way more substantial funding as compared to Mars mission for that they perform tasks such as human space flight, moon landings, interplanetary travel.

But the Indian space program is notable for:

-Cost-effectiveness: India makes good progress with comparatively low budgets and this is how one can conclude that it is very innovative in its way.
Scientific research focus: Unlike many other nations, India’s space missions like Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan are definitely not empty triumphs but have significance scientific data additions.
Technological advancements: From technological independence, India has designed and developed its communication satellites, launch vehicles and space borne instruments etc.

The future efforts include manned missions to space and specifically to the Moon and other planets and asteroids exploration. Despite all the issues India has in the field it remains one of the largest countries interested in space exploration focused on scientific research and technological development that would allow it to continue developing and carrying out space exploration in the near future.