Aditya L1 mission is all set to launch in August. (AP)

India to Launch Gaganyaan and Chandrayaan-3 Missions in 2023: ISRO

Over the past few months, there have been several rocket launches that have transported satellites from both India and other countries. Additionally, the launch of the Chandrayaan-3 mission has the potential to be a groundbreaking achievement for India, provided it successfully lands on the moon’s surface.

But it’s not over yet, as the Indian Space Research Organization is planning another commercial launch. ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carries a third-party satellite into orbit along with another mission exploring the Sun.

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According to the ISRO report. PSLV-C56 carries the DS-SAR satellite with six passengers. The rocket will take off from Sriharikota, scheduled to launch by the end of July 2023. The other six satellites are VELOX-AM, ARCADE, SCOOB-II, NuLIoN, Galassia-2 and ORB-12 STRIDER.

Next, in August, ISRO will launch India’s first space-based mission to study the Sun, called Aditya L1. The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This placement allows researchers to see the Sun continuously without obscuring/eclipsing. The purpose of this mission is to study various phenomena such as coronal heating, the physics of partially ionized plasma, the onset of coronal mass ejections, flares and much more.

Later this year, the Anwesha satellite and XPoSAT X-ray polarimetry satellite will be launched on ISRO’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to study the polarization of cosmic X-rays.

These are some of the big tasks that will be realized in the second half of 2023. It is heartening to see such big projects in India in collaboration with other countries. ISRO has successfully launched two commercial satellites and three for Earth.

The TeLEOS-2 satellite with two tail payloads was launched in April, and two commercial missions were launched in March with 36 satellites from UK-based OneWeb on an LVM3 rocket.