New Delhi: India’s lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled to be launched in August 2022, Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh, has said in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
Dr. Singh said, based on the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level experts, the realization of Chandrayaan-3 was in progress. Many related hardware and their special tests were successfully completed and the launch is scheduled for August 2022.
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The Minister informed that the number of missions planned during 2022 (January to December 2022) are 19 – 08 Launch Vehicle Missions, 07 Spacecraft Missions and 04 Technology Demonstrator Missions.
Several ongoing missions were impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he said. He said reprioritization of projects has taken place in the back drop of Space Sector reforms and newly introduced demand driven models. The following missions were realized in last 3 years.
– global bihari bureau
