Gaganyaan Manned Space Station
India is planning to launch its own space station. The activities associated with Space station will be an extension of Gaganyaan Programme. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi 13 June 2019, ISRO chief K Sivan said, the ambitious project which will enable the agency to send more humans to space when imlemented. He said India will not join the International Space Station. Mr Sivan said, the mission will also be an extension of the Gaganyaan project implying that there will be several phases to the human space mission project.
He said India will be launching a small module and that will be used for carrying out microgravity experiments. The weight of the space station is likely to be 20 tonnes.
Sivan said the proposal will be sent to the government for approval after the first Gaganyaan mission. A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting crew members, designed to remain in space for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock. Currently, there is only one fully functioning space station in Earth's lower orbit, the International Space Station and astronauts conduct different experiments in it.
Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said that by the 75th anniversary of Independence in 2022, India will be launching its first human space flight. He said, the Government has sanctioned ten thousand crore rupees for this Mission, which is being guided by the Gaganyaan National Advisory Council that has eminent scientists and persons as members.
ISRO chairman K Sivan said on 22 January 2020 “We are doing all this (Gaganyaan) on three points – short term plan of two unmanned mission in December 2020 and June 2021, followed by human space flight demonstration in December 2021. We have the mid term goal of sustaining the human space programme and continuous space human presence in space on a new space station”.
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