Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar 8: Chandrayaan-3 will be launched in the first half of 2021, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said here.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh, who is also In-Charge Space, said four biological and two physical science experiments related to microgravity will be conducted during the Gaganyaan project, India’s manned mission to space.
Dr Jitendra Singh said the revised configuration takes care of the robustness in design, capacity enhancement for mission flexibility and at the same time retained the heritage of Chandrayaan-II to the extent possible.
“The tentative launch schedule for Chandrayaan-III is first half of 2021. Chandrayaan-III mission has been configured based on the lessons learnt from Chadrayaan – II,” Singh said.
Chandrayaan-II hard-landed on lunar surface last year.
Elaborating on the progress made on Gaganyaan, Dr Jitendra Singh said hardware realisation has commenced for ground test and space flight training of four astronaut candidates has also commenced.
“Four biological and two physical science experiments related to microgravity from academic institutions are short-listed…,” Singh said.
National collaboration for design, development and delivery of human centric products such as crew medical kit, crew health monitoring system, emergency survival kit, dosimeters, earmuffs and fire suppression system has started, Singh said.
A three-week training programme for flight surgeon was also completed at ISRO with participation of CNES, the space agency of France, he added.
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