{"id":2347,"date":"2019-06-22T01:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2019-07-07T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T05:34:25","slug":"isro-unveiled-plan-to-set-up-its-own-space-station-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/isro-unveiled-plan-to-set-up-its-own-space-station-in-seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO unveiled plan to set up its own space station in seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The project will be\nconstructed once the ‘Gaganyaan’ human space mission is completed successfully,\nsays ISRO’s K Sivan<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

India has set its eye on building its own space station in low earth orbit to conduct microgravity experiments in space in 5 to 7 years,\u00a0Indian Space Research Organisation\u00a0(ISRO) revealed on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prospects of setting up such a space station at an altitude of 400 kilometres from earth would hinge on successfully carrying the\u00a0‘Gaganyaan’ human space mission, in which two to three Indian astronauts would send to space for a period of up to seven days before India celebrates its 75 anniversary of its independence, said ISRO Chairman K Sivan at a press conference here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed Indian space\nstation would be much smaller than the existing International Space Station\n(ISS), launched into orbit about 20 years by space agencies from Canada,\nEuropean Union, Japan, Russia and the US. “While ISS weighs 420 tonnes,\nIndian station is expected to have a payload of 20 tonnes,” Sivan\nsaid.  <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is to have \u201cour own\u201d\nspace station where Indian astronauts can fly regularly to conduct microgravity\nexperiments, the ISRO chief said. since 2000, astronauts have periodically\nvisited the ISS to carry out close to 300 different microgravity science\nexperiments in diverse fields such as astrobiology, astronomy, materials\nscience, space medicine and space weather.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe cost of the project is\nnot yet worked out,\u201d he said adding that the Indian space agency is yet to\napproach the government for the project approval.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Anurag Kumar\nSinha, the Head of the Directorate of Human Space Programme at ISRO, the\nstation would much smaller than ISS. The size of the envisaged station is equal\nto \u201ctwo Gaganyaan crew modules and a little more\u201d.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Indian station\nwould be available for other countries to do collaborative research,”\nSinha said.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Sivan, the\npreparations are going on for the ambitious ‘Gaganyaan’ human mission and an\napex committee has been formed with former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan,\nPrincipal Scientific Adviser K VijayRaghavan, Defence Research and Development\nOrganisation Chairman G Satheesh Reddy among others as members to choose the\npotential crew for the human space flight.<\/em><\/em>“The plan is to select around six\ncandidates who would trained in India, as well as abroad, for\nbecoming a space crew,” said Sinha. “The crew chosen for the maiden\nspace flight would be from test pilots from armed forces and once the human\nspace flight is operationalised, the recruitment would be thrown open for\nothers too,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The project will be constructed once the ‘Gaganyaan’ human space mission is completed successfully, says ISRO’s K Sivan India has set its eye on building its own space station in low earth orbit to conduct microgravity experiments in space in 5 to 7 years,\u00a0Indian Space Research Organisation\u00a0(ISRO) revealed on Thursday. The prospects of setting up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}