The government has informed the parliament that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has lined up six missions of PSLV, three GSLV launches and one commercial mission of Launch Vehicle Mark-3 in 2024.
In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology said that the ISRO will also launch a technology demonstration satellite on the third development flight of its newest launch vehicle SSLV.
He added that the space agency also has plans to undertake two unmanned missions under the Gaganyaan programme to validate the human-rated launch vehicle and the orbital module in actual flight.
The minister further noted that multiple sub-orbital missions using a test vehicle are also planned to validate the Gaganyaan Crew Escape System under various abort conditions. The space agency has also lined up two autonomous runway landing experiments of winged body Reusable Launch Vehicle and put in orbit the GSAT 20 communication satellite through a procured launch under a commercial contract by NewSpace India Limited (NSIL).
The six PSLV missions will launch a space science satellite, an Earth observation satellite, two technology demonstration missions and two commercial missions by NSIL. Meanwhile, the three GSLV missions are to launch a meteorology satellite, a navigation satellite, and a joint NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, while the LVM3 launch is a commercial mission by the NSIL.
