The Department of Space has planned as many as 19 missions this year even as the Chandrayaan-3, the next phase of India’s mission to the moon, is scheduled for August 2022, the government told the Lok Sabha.
“Based on the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level experts, the realization of Chandrayaan-3 is in progress. Much related hardware and their special tests are successfully completed, and the launch is scheduled for August 2022,” Union Minister for Space Dr. Jitendra Singh said in reply to a written question.
A total of 19 missions are planned from January to December 2022, including eight ‘Launch Vehicle Missions’, seven ‘Spacecraft Missions’ and four ‘Technology Demonstrator Missions’, Singh said.
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Several ongoing missions were impacted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, reprioritization of projects has taken place in the backdrop of Space Sector reforms and newly introduced demand-driven models, he said.
The list of satellites launched in the last three years’ time includes EOS-03 launched on August 12, 2021; Amazonia-1 launched on February 28, 2021; Satish Dhawan SAT (SDSAT) on February 28, 2021, and UNITYsat on February 28, 2021.
In the year 2020 and 2019, CMS-01 was launched on December 17, 2020; EOS-01 (November 7, 2020); GSAT-30 (January 17, 2020) while those launched in 2019 include RISAT-2BR1 (December 11, 2019); Cartosat-3 (November 27, 2019); Chandrayaan-2 (July 22, 2019); RISAT-2B (May 22, 2019); EMISAT (April 1, 2019); GSAT-31 (February 6, 2019); Microsat-R (January 24, 2019) and Kalamsat-V2 (January 24, 2019), the Minister informed the House yesterday, a Ministry’s release said on Thursday.
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