India’s space research organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for a major leap in space science on behalf of the country to unravel the mysteries of our solar system.
The research organization is planning to launch a key mission to study our home star – Sun.
According to the director of ISRO satellite centre in Bangalore, Mylswamy Annadurai, ISRO would launch ‘Aditya-L1’, the first Indian mission to study the sun by 2020.
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ISRO will be launching four more satellites this year or to be precise in the coming three months. The launches four satellites – INSAT-3DR and SCATSAT-1 (September), GSAT-18 (October) and ResourceSat-2A (November) are in pipeline. He was speaking to media at a function in a private college.
In three years ISRO has set a target of launching 70 satellites. Annadurai also said that India has decided to go solo in the Chandrayan-II project, without taking help from Russian space agency and that the project is expected to be launched by 2018.
