PARLIAMENT QUESTION: CHANDRAYAAN
PARLIAMENT QUESTION: CHANDRAYAAN
STATEMENT LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE RAJYA SABHA IN REPLY TO STARRED QUESTION NO. 120 REGARDING “CHANDRAYAAN” ASKED BY SHRI IRANNA KADADIFOR ANSWER ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER05, 2024.
ISRO has successfully executed three Chandrayaan missions and the Chandryaan-3 mission resulted in successful safe and soft landing on the moon.
A series of Chandrayaan missions are planned to build capability towards achieving the goal of Indian landing on Moon by 2040. Towards this, Government of Indian has approved Chandrayaan-4 mission, which will demonstrate the capability of landing on Moon and safe return to earth including technologies for sample collection. Chandrayaan-5/ LuPEX mission is being planned to demonstrate the higher capacity lander, which is an important element for future landing missions including human landing.
Continuous efforts are made for cost effectiveness of the missions through standardisation, indigenisation, utilization of state of the art technologies and integration of multiple functionalities.
While International Space Organisations have congratulated India for Chandrayaan-3 success, no specific request was made for the transfer of technology and future space cooperation.
The Government of India has announced reforms, on June, 2020, in the space sector towards enabling the private players to provide end-to-end services towards enhancing the Indian space economy to a significant level. Indian Space Policy-2023 was released in April 2023 as an overarching, composite and dynamic framework to implement the space reform vision. It helps to promote greater participation of Non-Governmental Entities (NGEs) in the value chain of space economy in order to develop robust, innovative and competitive space ecosystem aiming for a larger share of India in global space economy. It also enables the NGEs to make use of infrastructure created through public funds. Further, amendment was made to the Foreign Direct Investment policy for space sector, enabling higher threshold of foreign investments in various space domains.
15 spacecraft missions (2 Communication, 9 Earth Observation, 1 Navigation and 3 Space Science), 17 launch vehicle missions (8 PSLV, 3 GSLV, 3 LVM3 and 3 SSLV) and 5 technology demonstrators, have been successfully realized, since 2021 till date. Significant achievements are given at Annexure-1.
The notable satellites that ISRO has launched into space includes space science missions such as Aryabhatta, Astrosat, Mangalyaan, Chandrayaan series, XPOSAT, ADITYA-L1. ISRO has also successfully deployed an indigenous satellite based Navigation system namely the IRNSS/NavIC series of satellites. Further various Earth Observation Satellites such as Resourcesat series &Cartosat series were also launched. In the communication satellite segment the notable launches include the INSAT and GSAT series such as INSAT- 4C, GSAT-7A, GSAT-11, GSAT-29, GSAT-9 etc.
Annexure referred to in reply to part (e) of the Rajya Sabha Starred Question No. 120 for answer on 05.12.2024.
Annexure-1
Significant achievements of ISRO from 2021 to till date
This information was given by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Earth Sciences, MoS PMO, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.