Indian Space Research Organization
(Upcoming missions)
Chandrayan-2
Chandrayan-2 will be India's 2nd lunar mission, which will include an Orbiter and a lander rover. It will be launched on GSLV Mk II in first quarter of 2018. The main objective of this mission will be to improve the understanding of the origin and evolution of the moon.
ADITYA
Aditya is a probe to be sent to study the solar Corona in visible and IR bands. It's the first Indian mission to the sun by ISRO. The probe weigh about 400kg. It was planned to be launched during high solar activity in 2012, but was postponed to 2015-2016 due to the extensive work involved in the fabrication and other technical aspects. The main objective is to study the coronal mass ejection(CME) and consequently the crucial physical parameters such as coronal magnetic field structures, evolution of coronal magnetic field etc. This will provide completely new information on the velocity fields and their variability in the inner Corona having an important bearing on the unsolved problem of heating of the corona would be obtained.
AVATAR
AVATAR from "Aerobic vehicle for transatmospheric hypersonic aerospace transportation" is a concept for a manned single stage reusable spacecraft that will be able to land and take off horizontally. It's a combined mission of DRDO, ISRO and other research institutions of India. The concept is for low cost military and commercial launches as well as for space tourism. The first scaled down tests were conducted in 2016, and first manned AVATAR flight is proposed for 2025.
GSAT-11
GSAT-11 is based on I-4k bus which is under advance stage of development. The spacecraft can generate 10-12 KW of power and can support a payload power of 8KW. The payload configurations is ongoing. It consists of 16 spot beams covering entire country including Andman and Nicobar Ilands. The communication link to the user end terminal operates in Ku-band while the communication link to hubs operates in Ka-band.
RISAT-1A
RISAT-1A is a RADAR imaging satellite. It's configuration is same as RISAT-1. This is a land based satellite with a primary application in terrain mapping, analysis of land, ocean and water surface for soil mixture.
NISAR
NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture RADAR is a joint program of NASA and ISRO to co-develope and launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture RADAR satellite to be used in remote sensing. It's notable for being the first dual-band RADAR imaging satellite.
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