Facts About Indian Space

Research Organisation

(ISRO) - Part IV

ISRO is all set to launch India’s Mars mission in November 2013. The project named Mangalyaan has a total budget of just $22 million to $78 million. This is an orbiter mission.

 ISRO is planning a mission to Venus by May 2015 to study its atmosphere. The probe will reach Venus by September 2015

and would carry at least five instruments.

ISRO plans to carry out an unmanned mission to the sun by the year 2014. The probe is named as Aditya-1 and will

weigh about 400 kg.

Chandrayaan-2 has been rescheduled to 2016 due to some technical diffi culties. This is orbiter, lander and rover mission with a payload of about

2.6 tons. The rover will weigh 30–100 kg and will operate on solar power.

The Russian Space Agency is cooperating with India in developing the rover for Chandrayaan-2.

 ISRO is also working on a Human Spaceflight Program to undertake a human spaceflight mission to carry a crew of two to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and return them safely to a predefined destination on earth.

To accomplish this feat, ISRO is developing ISRO Orbital Vehicle capable of carrying three astronauts for seven days

in a near earth orbit.

 ISRO will set up an astronaut training centre in Bangalore to prepare personnel for flights on board the crewed vehicle.

ISRO is working on Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-II) with the main objective of realizing a fully recoverable capsule and to provide a platform to conduct microgravity experiments.

 AVATAR is a concept under development by ISRO in collaboration with DRDO. It is a single-stage reusable spaceplane capable of horizontal takeoff and landing.

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