Chandrayaan-3, the next phase of India’s mission to the moon, is scheduled for August 2022, the Central Government told the Lok Sabha today.
“Based on the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level experts, the realization of Chandrayaan-3 is in progress. Many related hardware and their special tests are successfully completed, and the launch is scheduled for August 2022,” Union Minister for Space Dr. Jitendra Singh said in reply to a written question.
A total of 19 missions are planned from January to December 2022, including eight ‘Launch Vehicle Missions’, seven ‘Spacecraft Missions’ and four ‘Technology Demonstrator Missions’, Singh said.
In the year 2020 and 2019, CMS-01 was launched on December 17, 2020; EOS-01 (November 7, 2020); GSAT-30 (January 17, 2020) while those launched in 2019 include RISAT-2BR1 (December 11, 2019); Cartosat-3 (November 27, 2019); Chandrayaan-2 (July 22, 2019); RISAT-2B (May 22, 2019); EMISAT (April 1, 2019); GSAT-31 (February 6, 2019); Microsat-R (January 24, 2019) and Kalamsat-V2 (January 24, 2019), the Minister informed the House yesterday, a press release said on Thursday.
