ISRO plans to launch low orbit space station

Vijay Upadhyay 

AGRA.         Indicating a major shift of its policy from riding piggyback major international space programmes to becoming an independent commercial establishment, ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair has said the organisation was on its way towards developing a low-earth orbit 'Micro-gravity' experimental platform in space.

Addressing a seminar on the Indian Space Programme held on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Radhaswami Educational Institute in Agra recently, Nair said that the Indian Space Programme was no longer a fledgling operation and with the successful launch of the Italian satellite last week on the PSLV, it had made its debut in the commercial use of its satellite launch vehicles, whose apex shall arrive in the year 2009 with the launch of GSLV Mark-III. By 2020, ISRO has a target to put 48 Indian satellites in orbit with 11 launches of the PSLV, he informed.

Elaborating on the use of space towards conducting experiments in micro-gravity, the ISRO chief said that the organisation would have a recoverable space capsule ready with the help of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by the next 15-20 years which shall assist in the development of the country's own indigenous low-earth orbit space observatory system on which such experiments shall be conducted.

He said Chandrayaan-I was the dream mission of ISRO, which shall be ready for launch in March next, and following the launch the satellite shall be established in a concentric orbit 10 km over the moon surface from where it shall send the data on the moon's mineral composition and possibilities of establishing a moon base for low-gravity rocket launches into deep space.

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