New Delhi. The Modi government has announced what will be the launch date of Chandrayaan-4. Science and Technology Minister Jeetendra Singh at the Center has said that Chandrayaan-4 will be launched in the year 2027. Chandrayaan-4 will descend on the moon and return to the earth with stone and clay samples. Till now only America, Russia and China have succeeded in bringing samples from the moon. If Chandrayaan-4 is also successful, then India will become the fourth country in the world to do so. In a conversation with news agency PTI, Jeetendra Singh said that two parts of Chandrayaan-4 will be sent to separate space. In space itself, both parts of Chandrayaan-4 will be added and dispatched to the moon.
“Gaganyaan is complete indigenous, the technology is indigenous, and the astronauts will also be Indians. An Indian Rakesh Sharma had gone to the space, but it was a soviet mission. If you talk about the status of #GaganyaanTest Flights are being Conducted Currently. Before… pic.twitter.com/mzwosbvu3i
– Dr Jitendra Singh (@DrjitendraSingh) February 6, 2025
The Union Minister also informed that ISRO’s Gaganyaan Mission will be launched in 2026. Indian astronauts will be sent to space in the Gaganyaan Mission. The astronauts of India will sit in the vehicle and make a round of the earth and then they will be brought safely. Earlier this year, a robot named Vyommitra will be seated in the Gaganyaan module and send it to the scientific space of ISRO. Even after sending humans into space with Gaganyaan, India will include its name in select countries. Jeetendra Singh said that Bharat Samudraan Abhiyan is also going to be launched next year i.e. 2026. Through this vehicle, three scientists will go to a depth of 6000 meters in the sea. PM Narendra Modi gave information about India’s Samudrayan Mission at the Independence Day celebrations of 2024.
Jeetendra Singh said that ISRO was established in 1969, but the first rocket launchpad of the organization was formed in 1993. He told that ISRO’s second launchpad could then be made in 2004 after a decade. The minister said that the Modi government has approved the formation of ISRO’s third launchpad. With this, for the first time and heavy rockets will be sent to space. At the same time, a new site is being created to launch small satellites from Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. He informed that India is currently earning Rs 8 billion from the space industry. The target is to increase it to 44 billion in the next 10 years.