Explainer: Why is India making it harder for ISRO scientists to resign?
The memorandum, issued on July 14, was signed by SR Rajashekar, Joint Secretary (Personnel), Department of Space.
The memorandum, issued on July 14, was signed by SR Rajashekar, Joint Secretary (Personnel), Department of Space.
The ISRO chief said that the organisation is currently studying the cause of PSLV mission failure, and called it an individual mission which would not affect the progress of the Gaganyaan mission.
Following the successful launch of the SpaDeX mission, Union Minister of state Jitendra Singh stated that India has become the fourth country to join the select league of nations to achieve space docking through its own indigenously developed "Bharatiya Docking System."
Gaganyaan is India’s proposed first human flight mission that envisions sending a three-membered crew into an orbit of 400km for a period of three days and bringing them back to Earth.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday shared the onboard video of the Gaganyaan TV-D1 test vehicle that the Indian space agency launched successfully on Saturday.
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address in 2018, wherein he said that an Indian astronaut, be it a man or a woman, will go on a space odyssey by 2022 onboard ‘Gaganyaan’, the minister said the programme got slightly delayed due to COVID restrictions, but preparations are now in full swing to achieve the mission by 2023.
Elaborating on the cabinet decision to encourage private participation in ISRO activities, Dr Jitendra Singh said, a regulatory body called “Indian National Space Promotion & Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe)” is to be established.
Last year Chandrayaan-II had crash landed on lunar surface.
According to ISRO Chairman K Sivan, ISRO's aim is to have the first unmanned flight by the end of next year. ‘Gaganyaan’ is India’s manned space mission which the ISRO aims to launch by December 2021. The project aims at sending the astronauts to a lower orbit of the earth and the spacecraft will have a capsule with adequate supply of oxygen and other essential material and facilities for the ‘Gagan Yatris’.
PM also spoke on the Bru-refugee agreement which was signed recently to resolve the Bru-Reang refugee crisis.
