October 01, 2023
- After the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the Aditya-L1 mission, which is studying the sun from a distance of 1.5 million kms.
- ISRO plans to demonstrate human spaceflight capabilities by sending a three-member crew to an orbit of 400kms for three days via the Gaganyaan mission. Two unmanned missions will precede the manned Gaganyaan mission, the first of which will be launched by the beginning of 2024.
- The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, a collaboration between NASA and ISRO, aims to observe and study the movements of the Earth’s surface and is expected to be launched in 2024.
- With the X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat), ISRO will study the dynamics of luminous astronomical X-ray sources over a period of five years.
- ISRO’s other projects include Mangalyaan 2 and Shukrayaan, missions that aim to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars and Venus, respectively.
