New Delhi: India will launch two unmanned missions next year before the human spaceflight programme ‘Gaganyaan’ by the end of 2022, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. Sharing the status of other space projects, Singh — during the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha — said the Venus mission is planned for 2022, while the Solar Mission for 2022-23 and that of the Space Station by 2030.
Singh, the Minister of State in the Department of Space, said space projects have been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “In the next year, we are going to have two unmanned missions before flying the Gaganyaan. That is also in the planning. That is usually the SoP (Standard Operating Procedure) which is followed. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it got delayed,” he said.
In the beginning of next year possibly, India will first launch unmanned missions ahead of Gaganyaan towards the end of 2022, he said, adding that it would be accompanied with robots that have been named as…