ISRO’s LVM-3 rocket lifts off with Chandrayaan-3 on board on July 14, 2023
ISRO Chairperson S Somanath stated the area company has achieved a record excessive in the last one 12 months, not solely in phrases of launching satellites, but additionally with regard to the distinctiveness of the missions.
Speaking on the celebration of 77th Independence Day at ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru on August 15, Mr Somanath stated, “Between the previous Independence Day and now, we’ve been very, very successful in achieving many missions. Let me thank all of you all across ISRO centres, Department of Space for the wonderful accomplishment you have made in the last one year. Launching satellites, building rockets and launching in numbers, and the numbers are really a record high this year. It is not only the record that we are trying to break, it is the uniqueness of the missions that have been accomplished.”
On the Chandrayaan-3 mission, he stated that it’s being hailed as an vital mission and everyone is trying ahead to its soft-landing.
“We made a new SSLV rocket successfully. We made the LVM-3 capture the world market in terms of commercial exploitation. We launched the Oceansat-3 satellite, which is an engineering marvel. Aditya-L1 is ready for launch in the next few weeks,” Mr Somanath stated.
ISRO has X-ray Polarimeter Satellite in the pipeline
On upcoming missions, he stated that the X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is prepared. XPoSat is India’s first devoted polarimetry mission to check numerous dynamics of shiny astronomical X-ray sources in excessive situations
INSAT-3DS, Gaganyaan take a look at automobile mission, Gaganyaan unmanned mission, and the Indo-US NISAR (NASA-ISRO) mission are on the brink of be launched this 12 months, and early subsequent 12 months.
