ISRO planning half a dozen major launches in first half of 2025: Space Minister | India News – Times of India

New Delhi: 2025 is shaping up to be a busy and important calendar year for ISRO as Space Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday announced that half a dozen major missions are slated for launch in the first half of the new year, including sending is also included. A female robot is launching the world’s most expensive Indo-US joint Earth imaging project ahead of the Gagnian manned mission in space. Satellite, NISAR.
During a press meet to list India’s space achievements and upcoming launches in 2024, Singh said ISRO will be the first to carry out a space launch. Advanced Navigation Satellite NVS-02 The GSLV launch in January will mark ISRO’s 100th mission. Next, ISRO will send Vyum Mitra, a female humanoid built by ISRO, into space as part of the unmanned mission. The Gagneyan Mission. It will be a precursor to the human mission and will be similar to the final manned mission except for the humans. The minister said that once everything goes well in the Vyum Mitra mission, the astronauts will be sent into space.

He also said that the Indo-US joint mission NASA-ISRO SAR (NASAR) satellite, which is considered to be the world’s most expensive satellite at Rs 12,505 crore, will be launched around March. “This satellite will scan almost all the land and snow every 12 days and will have a very high resolution,” the minister said.
Singh also said that ISRO was born in 1969 when the US was busy sending humans to the moon. But now the situation has changed as ISRO is launching an American satellite as he refers to the upcoming commercial launch of the satellite for an American customer, which will be used for mobile communications. “We have the LVM3-M5 mission scheduled for an international customer in the first quarter. India is also launching a satellite for direct mobile communications to the US by February or March, which will further our emerging capabilities. It shows,” said the minister.
The minister said that ISRO has earned more than $400 million from commercial satellite launches for the US and EU over the past decade. Singh said the revenue figures are likely to increase in the coming years. “To date, ISRO has generated $172 million in revenue from satellite launches for the US and €292 million ($304 million) for the European Union. Of this, €157 million from US launches and €260 million ($271 million) from the EU. of launches have come in the last decade alone. This shows how far India has grown in the space economy, and its current stature as a leading spacefaring nation,” Singh said.
ISRO Chairman S Somanth said, “2025 will be a very interesting year as ISRO will launch four GSLV rockets and three PSLV launches as well as one SSLV in the new year”.
ISRO Associate Director (EO Division) Dr Rajeev Jaiswal said that in 2024, India had launched 15 missions, including some technology demonstration missions and commercial launches.
“We started the year with the XPoSat mission on January 1, then the Aditya L1 solar mission, which involved sending the Indian spacecraft into a halo orbit around the Sun, was launched on January 6. The INSAT-3DS mission was launched on February 17. The third and final development flight of the on-demand rocket SSLV was carried out on August 16. NSIL’s commercial launch of Gsat-N2 took place on November 19 “PSLV C59 was launched on December 5 with Europe’s PROBA-3 mission and finally the SpaDeX mission took off from Sriharikota on December 30,” he said.