- The first manned flight to space is getting ready at the ISRO; the Indian Scientists are working on a number of critical technologies to develop a possible human space in the coming years
- This unnamed module is getting ready to be flown onboard the experimental flight of GSLV Mk-III, to understand its ballistic re-entry characteristics, chairman ISRO addressed graduating students of Birla Institute of Technology and Science(BITS) Pilani-Hyderabad
- The ISRO’s next gen launch vehicle GSLV-Mk III experiment flight with a cryogenic stage, while ISRO is confident to take up its first development flight in 2016-17
- India’s first inter-planetary vehicle will create history; the Mars Orbiter spacecraft has traversed nearly 88 per cent of its distance along its designated path to the red planet. The next operational milestone is the insertion of the spacecraft into the Martian Orbit on September 24, 2014
- As per the chairman ISRO, If this is successful then amongst Asian countries India will be the first country to orbit a spacecraft around planet Mars, and the first country in the world to achieve it in the first attempt
- The need for communication satellites in the country has resulted in inviting partnership with foreign industries to enhance the current satellite platforms
- Further Dr.Radhakrishnan, ISRO Chairman opined, country is having a constellation of 13 earth observation satellites while several new ones are being planned to replace ageing satellite
- Other announcements were about the launch of Astrosat, a multi-wavelength space-borne observatory to enable observations of celestial bodies in ultra-violet, visible and X-ray bands
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/isro-india-working-on-manned-flight-mission/article6302272.ece