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ISRO to set up space station


Published : 13 Jun 2019 08:39 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 02:42 PM

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on Thursday that it is planning to set up its own space station. ISRO chief K Sivan told reporters here the ambitious project will be an extension of India’s Gaganyaan (space) mission. "We have to sustain the Gaganyaan programme after the launch of (the) human space mission. In this context, India is planning to have its own space station," Sivan said.

The United States, Russia, China had their separate space stations for a specific period of time and consortium of countries, including the US, Russia and European Space Agency, now have a functional international space station. The Indian government has already cleared a budget of Rs. 10,000 crore for the Gaganyaan mission and the country’s maiden manned space flight is planned for 2022.

India's second mission to the moon will take off on July 15 and will attempt to land near the South Pole of the moon, a decade years after first moon mission. A space station is capable of supporting crewmembers of a space craft and is designed to remain in space for a spacecraft to dock with it. The International Space Station is a habitable artificial satellite in low earth orbit.