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Start date End date Details Chandrayaan programme: Chandrayaan-1: 22 October 2008 28 August 2009 Chandrayaan 1 as India's first lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation on 22 October 2008, and was operated until August 2009. The mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor.
It is the main satellite launch centre for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is located in Sriharikota , Andhra Pradesh , 80 km (50 mi) north of Chennai . Originally called Sriharikota Range [ 1 ] (SHAR), an acronym that ISRO has retained to the present day.
To date, ISRO has developed most of the technologies needed, such as the crew module and crew escape system, space food, and life support systems. The project would cost less than ₹ 100 billion (US$1.3 billion) and would include sending two or three Indians to space, at an altitude of 300–400 km (190–250 mi), for at least seven days ...
The Chandrayaan programme (/ ˌ tʃ ʌ n d r ə ˈ j ɑː n / CHUN-drə-YAHN) (Sanskrit: Candra 'Moon', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle', pronunciation ⓘ) [4] [5] also known as the Indian Lunar Exploration Programme is an ongoing series of outer space missions by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the exploration of the Moon.
ATV-D01 weighed 3 tonnes at lift-off and was the heaviest sounding rocket ever developed by ISRO at the time. It was mounted with a passive Scramjet engine. The rocket flew for 7 seconds, achieved Mach number 6 + 0.5 and dynamic pressure 80 + 35 kPa. [31] [32] On 28 August 2016, ISRO tested scramjet engine with a five-minute flight.
Satish Dhawan is known for his work on fluid dynamics and his tenure as longest serving chief of ISRO. His era marked with India attaining orbital launch capability in 1980 for the first time and start of INSAT program which became base for further development of spacecraft technologies. 4 U. R. Rao (1932–2017) 1984: 1994: 10 years [9] [10]
Sivan was appointed the chief of ISRO in January 2018 and he assumed office on 15 January. [13] Under his chairmanship, ISRO launched Chandrayaan-2 , the second mission to the Moon on 22 July 2019, of which Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover crashed; the orbiter was not affected and is still orbiting the Moon as of September 2023.
ISRO will be building and launching 3 missions to validate the human rating of the LVM3. [3] [62] Existing launch facilities will be upgraded to enable them to carry out launches under the Indian Human Spaceflight campaign. [63] [64] ISRO has been modifying propulsion modules of various stages of the rocket for human rating.