ISRO Chairman S Somanath announced that India’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, is on track to be launched by the end of this year. The Union Cabinet recently approved expanding the Gaganyaan program and constructing the first Indian Space Station.
Somanath also shared updates on the Chandrayaan-4 mission, which has completed its engineering phase. This mission, approved on 18 September, aims to develop technologies for a safe return to Earth after a lunar landing and collecting moon samples. It will help India achieve a lunar landing by 2040. The government plans to build the Indian Space Station by 2035.
