Next ISRO Missions: After Chandrayaan 3, ISRO will surprise the world with India’s first maiden voyage to the Sun. The solar mission named Aditya L-1 will be launched from Shriharikota Space Center today. The Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO, has carried out 124 spacecraft missions. Also 93 missions have been launched and various missions are planned. Check out the various missions planned from 2021 onwards below.
List of upcoming ISRO missions
Take a look at all the missions that ISRO will take up in the coming years.
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RISAT-1A: This is a radar imaging satellite. Corresponds to the RISAT-1 configuration. It’s a ground mission. The primary application of this satellite is in terrain mapping and analysis of land, oceans and water surfaces.
Gaganyaan-1: Gaganyan is India’s manned orbital spacecraft. It is intended to be the foundation of India’s human spaceflight program. This craft is made for three people only. The upgraded version would be equipped with rendezvous and docking capability. It is India’s first human space mission. It will most likely be launched in 2024.
Chandrayaan-3: It is a lunar rover which was launched on July 14 from Sriharikota. It would be launched to attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-2’s successor, Chandrayaan-3, landed on the South Pole of the Moon’s surface on August 23, 2023.
Chandrayaan-3 mission: ‘India🇮🇳, I have reached my destination and so have you!’: Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3 successfully soft landed on the Moon 🌖!.
Congratulations, India🇮🇳!#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3
— ISRO (@isro)
August 23, 2023
Aditya-L1: It is one of the first missions of the Indian observatory. It will be India’s first solar mission. He would study the solar corona using a solar coronagraph. X-ray spectroscopic instruments would provide spectra of the flares while in situ payloads would observe solar events. It is expected to be launched by the end of August or September 2023. The spacecraft has already reached the Sriharikota sea port. After Chandrayaan-3 lands on the moon, ISRO is most likely to focus on the solar mission.
PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 mission: 23 hours and 40 minutes countdown to launch at 11:50 am. IST on September 2, 2023, was commended today at 12:10 PM.
The launch can be followed LIVE on ISRO website https://t.co/osrHMk7MZL Facebook https://t.co/zugXQAYy1yYouTube…
— ISRO (@isro)
September 1, 2023
Gaganyaan-2: It would be a test flight of an unmanned spacecraft. It would be the second of two test flights before the first manned mission.
NISAR: NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) is a joint project of NASA and ISRO. It would be jointly developed and launched with a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite that would be used for remote sensing.
See the table below:
1 | RISAT-1A | in 2021 | Radar imaging satellite |
2 | Chandrayaan-3 | in 2023 | Lunar lander, rover |
3 | Aditya-L1 | in 2023 | Observation of the Sun |
4 | Gaganyaan 1 | in 2024 | Unmanned spacecraft flight test |
5 | Gaganyaan 2 | in 2024 | Unmanned spacecraft flight test |
6 | NISAR | January 2024 | SAR satellite |
7 | Shukrayaan-1 | December 2024 | Venus orbiter |
8 | Lunar Pole Exploration Mission | in 2024 | Lunar lander, rover |
9 | Mangalyaan 2 | in 2024 | Mars Orbiter |
10 | Gaganyaan 3 | in 2025 | Manned spacecraft |
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