The ISRO has planned as many as 19 missions this year even as the Chandrayaan-3, the next phase of India’s mission to the moon, is scheduled for August 2022, the government told the Lok Sabha. “Experience and learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level experts, the realisation of Chandrayaan-3 are 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 answered in a reply to a written question. Later he informed several ongoing missions were impacted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The list of satellites launched in the last three years’ time include EOS-03 launched on August 12, 2021; Amazonia-1 launched on February 28, 2021; Satish Dhawan SAT (SDSAT) on February 28, 2021, and UNITYsat on February 28, 2021.
