Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later
India's government last week signed off on three big space missions: a Moon lander, a space station module, and a Venus orbiter.
Space projects seldom stay on track, so it would be unusual if Chandrayaan-4 launches by 2027 as planned. The Venus probe has been given a budget of around $150 million, around two thirds of which will be spent building a spacecraft capable of investigating the planet's"surface and subsurface, atmospheric processes and influence of Sun on Venusian atmosphere."
The biggest-ticket item, India's orbiting lab, is called the Bharatiya Anthariksh Station and has a budget of around $1.35 billion. The first module is seen as a pathfinder for construction of a fully-operational station by 2035. India wants the full facility to be fit for activities including"microgravity-based scientific research & technology development."
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