After ending 2024 on a excessive by commencing its key Area Docking Experiment (SpaDex), ISRO is ready to see an action-packed 2025: from launching the primary privately constructed PSLV to getting ready for the Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission.
On Tuesday, Union MoS for Area Dr Jitendra Singh stated the yr will start with the docking exercise of the SpaDex mission. “It’s scheduled for January 7 forenoon,” he stated.
The docking experiment can be adopted by the launch of NVS-02 in January itself. The NVS-02 is a alternative satellite tv for pc for the seven-satellite NavIC, India’s regional equal of the GPS.
The much-awaited NISAR, a first-of-its-kind Earth-observation cmission between ISRO and NASA, has been scheduled for second quarter, MoS Singh stated.
The PSLV N1, India’s workhorse launch car manufactured privately by HAL and L&T consortium, is prone to be launched within the first quarter.
With Gaganyaan’s last crewed flight seemingly in first half of 2026, ISRO can be conducting at the least two key launches in preparation this yr. In first quarter, it plans to hold out the primary uncrewed flight with the robotic ‘Vyommitra’ in it.
The second check car mission will validate efficiency of crew escape system.
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