Since Chandrayan 2 is considered a 95% success an immediate repeat of the same mission has been called off by ISRO. Here is the top 7 future missions conceived by ISRO before 2025.
1. Aditya L1 Mission
This mission, which is an upgraded version of earlier mission Aditya 1 mission, is scheduled to launch between 2019-2020 time frame. The mission will be to study the outer layer of the Sun called Corona.
Corona has a temperature of million degrees which is much higher than the temperature of Sun’s disc which is around 6000K. This huge temperature variation is a mystery which this mission plans to unravel. The satellite will be placed on the L1 orbit which is 1.5 million km from the Earth. The mission contains seven payloads and will attempt to provide an overall understanding of various processes of the Sun.
2. Gaganyaan
This will be the first Indian human spaceflight mission scheduled for December 2021-January 2022. On December 28, 2018, the Union Cabinet approved the Gaganyaan Mission. A fund of INR 10,000 was also sanctioned. Indian Air force and ISRO had signed an MoU for the selection and training of 3 crew members. The training of crews will be conducted at the Human Space Flight Centre.
The IAF has also begun to work for shortlisting 10 potential candidates including 3 women for astronaut training. The GSLV MK 3 will be used as a launcher. The mission will be under the leadership of R.Hutton.
3. Mangalyaan 2
Mangalyaan 1 had already established India as a pioneer in space exploration. Mangalyaan 2 is scheduled in 2022-2023. The announcement had been made by ISRO in 2014 and an Announcement of Opportunity for payloads was announced with 20th September 2016 as the last date.
The French Space Agency has signed a letter of intent to cooperate on this mission but no involvement has been announced till date. Indian Institue of Space and Technology is developing payloads for this mission.
4. Chandrayan3
Plans for an Indo-Japan lunar mission were in early stages and the initial studies and tasks of the two agencies were being worked out. The two space-faring countries are friends but have had little space talk together so far.
ISRO should send a third lunar trip, once it completes the crewed space mission ‘Gaganyaan’ in 2022. Chandrayaan-2 is a precursor of Chandrayaan-3, which is scheduled to make a sample return mission in 2023-2024,” said Dr. Giri, who has been part of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to a comet and worked in the area in the U.S. and Japan.
India, which has set out to pioneer explorations in the Moon's South Pole, should not get left behind in the global space race. In the next 4-5 years alone, major space-faring nations are planning to send at least seven missions to the lunar South Pole. There would be big dividends from that region, from mining to habitation, he said.
Dr. Giri observed that the U.S. was returning to the Moon around 2024 with crewed Artemis flybys and landers. Russia had lined up Luna 25 and 26 to pave the way for a future robotic habitat. China, which recently landed Chang'e-4 on the Moon's far side that is always turned away from the Earth, has lined up Chang'e-5 late this year or next year to bring samples back from the South Pole, and may also send two follow ons. Chang'e-5 is said to be the first lunar sample return mission being attempted since 1976.
The ISRO should take up speedy construction of Chandrayaan-3 and develop a `public-private ecosystem of space capabilities', he said. In his view, the DoS must stop depending solely on ISRO and increasingly involve public and private sector entities, universities, start-ups and research labs to get this and other scientific projects quickly off the mark.
5. Shukrayaan 2
Scheduled for 2025, ISRO intends to understand various surface and subsurface phenomenon, super-rotation of Venusian Atmosphere and its interaction with solar wind/radiation.
6. EXPOsat
ISRO’s Astrosat mission was launched to study simultaneous multi-wavelength observations of various astronomical objects. Exposat will be a follow up on this mission. This mission will specifically study the polarisation of X Rays in the Universe which can be caused by a variety of factors such as Supernova Events, black holes as well as neutron stars. Understanding this phenomenon will significantly help ISRO in Designing spacecraft to help them save from the radiations.
7. Indian Space Station
The International Space Station will retire by 2030. The Indian space station will be small as compared to ISS and will weigh around 15- 20 tonnes with carrying capacity for 10 – 20 days. After the Chandrayaan mission, an Indian Space Station is the next logical step but also very cost extensive.
Space Station can also act as a stopover for future manned Mars missions. ISRO’s annual report has no mention of Space Station and currently, no deadline is set by ISRO in this regard.
Space is one of the most intriguing subjects and humans have been trying hard to create technology good enough to aide in its exploration. Although we aren’t there yet but with space missions such as the ones mentioned above, and more to come, India’s future in space looks bright.
1. Aditya L1 Mission
This mission, which is an upgraded version of earlier mission Aditya 1 mission, is scheduled to launch between 2019-2020 time frame. The mission will be to study the outer layer of the Sun called Corona.
Corona has a temperature of million degrees which is much higher than the temperature of Sun’s disc which is around 6000K. This huge temperature variation is a mystery which this mission plans to unravel. The satellite will be placed on the L1 orbit which is 1.5 million km from the Earth. The mission contains seven payloads and will attempt to provide an overall understanding of various processes of the Sun.
2. Gaganyaan
This will be the first Indian human spaceflight mission scheduled for December 2021-January 2022. On December 28, 2018, the Union Cabinet approved the Gaganyaan Mission. A fund of INR 10,000 was also sanctioned. Indian Air force and ISRO had signed an MoU for the selection and training of 3 crew members. The training of crews will be conducted at the Human Space Flight Centre.
The IAF has also begun to work for shortlisting 10 potential candidates including 3 women for astronaut training. The GSLV MK 3 will be used as a launcher. The mission will be under the leadership of R.Hutton.
3. Mangalyaan 2
Mangalyaan 1 had already established India as a pioneer in space exploration. Mangalyaan 2 is scheduled in 2022-2023. The announcement had been made by ISRO in 2014 and an Announcement of Opportunity for payloads was announced with 20th September 2016 as the last date.
The French Space Agency has signed a letter of intent to cooperate on this mission but no involvement has been announced till date. Indian Institue of Space and Technology is developing payloads for this mission.
4. Chandrayan3
Plans for an Indo-Japan lunar mission were in early stages and the initial studies and tasks of the two agencies were being worked out. The two space-faring countries are friends but have had little space talk together so far.
ISRO should send a third lunar trip, once it completes the crewed space mission ‘Gaganyaan’ in 2022. Chandrayaan-2 is a precursor of Chandrayaan-3, which is scheduled to make a sample return mission in 2023-2024,” said Dr. Giri, who has been part of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to a comet and worked in the area in the U.S. and Japan.
India, which has set out to pioneer explorations in the Moon's South Pole, should not get left behind in the global space race. In the next 4-5 years alone, major space-faring nations are planning to send at least seven missions to the lunar South Pole. There would be big dividends from that region, from mining to habitation, he said.
Dr. Giri observed that the U.S. was returning to the Moon around 2024 with crewed Artemis flybys and landers. Russia had lined up Luna 25 and 26 to pave the way for a future robotic habitat. China, which recently landed Chang'e-4 on the Moon's far side that is always turned away from the Earth, has lined up Chang'e-5 late this year or next year to bring samples back from the South Pole, and may also send two follow ons. Chang'e-5 is said to be the first lunar sample return mission being attempted since 1976.
The ISRO should take up speedy construction of Chandrayaan-3 and develop a `public-private ecosystem of space capabilities', he said. In his view, the DoS must stop depending solely on ISRO and increasingly involve public and private sector entities, universities, start-ups and research labs to get this and other scientific projects quickly off the mark.
5. Shukrayaan 2
Scheduled for 2025, ISRO intends to understand various surface and subsurface phenomenon, super-rotation of Venusian Atmosphere and its interaction with solar wind/radiation.
6. EXPOsat
ISRO’s Astrosat mission was launched to study simultaneous multi-wavelength observations of various astronomical objects. Exposat will be a follow up on this mission. This mission will specifically study the polarisation of X Rays in the Universe which can be caused by a variety of factors such as Supernova Events, black holes as well as neutron stars. Understanding this phenomenon will significantly help ISRO in Designing spacecraft to help them save from the radiations.
7. Indian Space Station
The International Space Station will retire by 2030. The Indian space station will be small as compared to ISS and will weigh around 15- 20 tonnes with carrying capacity for 10 – 20 days. After the Chandrayaan mission, an Indian Space Station is the next logical step but also very cost extensive.
Space Station can also act as a stopover for future manned Mars missions. ISRO’s annual report has no mention of Space Station and currently, no deadline is set by ISRO in this regard.
Space is one of the most intriguing subjects and humans have been trying hard to create technology good enough to aide in its exploration. Although we aren’t there yet but with space missions such as the ones mentioned above, and more to come, India’s future in space looks bright.
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