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India planning to have its own space station: ISRO Chief

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Published : Jun 13, 2019, 6:52 PM IST

India is planning to set up its own space station, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K Sivan said on Thursday. The ambitious project will be an extension of the Gaganyaan mission. He also announced that in 2022, ISRO will send its first human mission into space.

India planning to have its own space station: ISRO Chief

ISRO Chief Dr K Sivan

New Delhi: India is planning to launch its own space station, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said on Thursday.

The space station, which is estimated to weigh around 20 tonnes, would be an extension of the Gaganyaan mission -- India's first manned mission into space.

"India will set up its separate space station in the next 5-7 years after Gangayaan is successfully completely in 2022," Sivan said while talking to ETV Bharat.

India planning to have its own space station, says ISRO Chief.

The space station will most likely be used to conduct microgravity experiments, he added.

The ISRO chief said that the preliminary plan for the space station is to accommodate astronauts for up to 15-20 days in space, but specific details will emerge after the Gaganyaan, is complete, he said.

There will be no collaboration with any other country for this project, he stressed.

The only countries that have had space stations so far are the US, Russia, China and a consortium of nations that own the International Space Station.

Sivan also announced that the ISRO is planning to launch two other missions to study the Sun and Venus.

The mission to the Sun, named Aditya-L1, would be launched in 2020 and the mission to Venus in mid-2023.

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New Delhi: India is planning to launch its own space station, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said on Thursday.

The space station, which is estimated to weigh around 20 tonnes, would be an extension of the Gaganyaan mission -- India's first manned mission into space.

"India will set up its separate space station in the next 5-7 years after Gangayaan is successfully completely in 2022," Sivan said while talking to ETV Bharat.

India planning to have its own space station, says ISRO Chief.

The space station will most likely be used to conduct microgravity experiments, he added.

The ISRO chief said that the preliminary plan for the space station is to accommodate astronauts for up to 15-20 days in space, but specific details will emerge after the Gaganyaan, is complete, he said.

There will be no collaboration with any other country for this project, he stressed.

The only countries that have had space stations so far are the US, Russia, China and a consortium of nations that own the International Space Station.

Sivan also announced that the ISRO is planning to launch two other missions to study the Sun and Venus.

The mission to the Sun, named Aditya-L1, would be launched in 2020 and the mission to Venus in mid-2023.

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Intro:New Delhi: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Dr K Sivan on Thursday announced that "Indian will set up its separate space states in the next 5-7 years after Gaganyaan is successfully completed in 2022."

While talking to ETV Bharat, he said, "the weight of new space station will be of around 20 tonnes."

Speaking about the future plans about the space agency, Sivan said ISRO was striving to reach the two planets Sun and Venus. He said that mission to the Sun would be in 2022 and mission to Venus in the next 3 years.

Body:Talking about the challenges of Chandrayaan-2 mission launching, K Sivan said, "the last 15 minutes to the landing are going to be the most terrifying for us because ISRO has never undertaken such type of complex flight."

He added that Chandrayaan-2 speed has to be reduced in a control way to bring the orbital speed to zero.The sensors, navigation system, mission management everything has to function in a correct way to ensure that it is landing at right time with zero velocity.

Conclusion:ISRO chairperson said that Chandrayaan-2 which is set to launch on July 15 at 2:51 am, has a mass of 3.8 tonne and has three modules- Orbiter, Lander and Rover.

He also announced that on the eve of 75th Independence anniversary of India in 2022, ISRO will send its first human mission into space.

When he was asked that women can also be the the part of this space mission, he said Might be, as we have named it a human mission and not man mission.

Chandrayaan-2 will be India's second mission to the moon, and the first to attempt a soft landing. It will make a landing at a site where no earlier mission has gone, near the South pole of the moon.

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