According to a senior official, the Indian space agency has a full launch plan for the coming year that includes commercial, navigation, sun, and moon missions.
S. Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told the reporters present that integration tests for the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft are now underway.
He stated that the lunar trip will be considered for June 2023 by the space agency.
According to an official speaking to IANS, the ISRO also intends to send its satellite Aditya-L1, a coronagraphy spacecraft to investigate the solar atmosphere, on a voyage to the sun.
The spacecraft will be positioned in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth system’s L1’s first Lagrange point, according to ISRO. The main benefit of a satellite orbiting the L1 point is that it can continuously see the Sun without being obscured by clouds or eclipses.
According to OneWeb’s chairman S. Somanath, the ISRO will launch 36 satellites for commercial use in 2023.
On Sunday, the first group of 36 satellites was successfully launched.
Over Rs 1,000 crore will be paid by the UK corporation to NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL) for both launches.
OneWeb is a partnership between the UK government and India Bharti Global.
The launching of a navigation satellite for the nation’s NavIC constellation is the other mission scheduled for 2023.
Somanath claims that the launch of the space agency’s little rocket, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), in December 2022 will mark the end of the year.
This year’s inaugural launch of the rocket was unsuccessful.
Oceansat 3 will be sent by the ISRO together with a few other satellites as piggyback cargo in order to investigate the seas.
