According to the Indian media "Eurasian Times" reported on January 17, India's Minister of Atomic Energy and Space Development Jitendra Singh recently announced that India's first space station will be completed in 2030, and India's long-awaited first manned space program "Gaganyaan" is also scheduled to be launched this year.
Nitin J. Ticku, an Indian defense expert, optimistically analyzed that India has been catching up with China at a rapid pace, from nuclear tests to lunar probes to anti-satellite tests, a historical pattern that suggests that India can have its own space station by 2030.
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The Eurasia Info reported that in the space field recently, all eyes have been on the space race between China and the United States, and China is expected to become the only country in the world to have a space station by 2024 (2030 at the latest). India is catching up with China fast and has already successfully completed multiple space missions, with more ambitious space programs to come in the coming years.
India's Minister of Atomic Energy and Space Development, Gitendra Singh, recently announced in Parliament that India's first space station will be completed in 2030, and the first manned spaceflight program "Gaganyan" will also be launched this year.
According to K. Singh, head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), K. Singh Sivan) introduced in 2019 that India's proposed space station will weigh up to 20 tons and operate in an orbit 400 kilometers from Earth, and astronauts can stay inside the space station for 15 to 20 days. Hevin said the space station will be launched within 5 to 7 years after the success of the Gaganyan program.
International Space Station
"We want a separate space station, and we're going to launch a small module for microgravity experiments ... This is our ambition. Shivon said that after the completion of the "Gaganyan" program, he will submit a detailed report to the Indian government on the construction of the space station.
In this year's New Year's message from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Hevin acknowledged rumors that there was little progress in the space sector in 2021 "mainly because of too few launches," but said that during last year's "lulltime," ISRO conducted various technology research and development activities to prepare for space activities in the next decade.
At present, the flagship project in the Indian space sector, "Gaganyan", has completed the design and entered the testing phase, "We are currently testing the 'Vikas' rocket engine used to launch the manned spacecraft, the spacecraft's crew escape system, and the service module propulsion system," Shivin said. ”
Chinese space station
However, Shivin also pointed out that the "Gaganyan" manned space program, which is expected to launch this year, is still a top priority for ISRO and the Indian government. Only if the Gaganyan plan succeeds can India build its own space station become a reality.
In the second half of 2022, the Indian Space Agency will conduct the first unmanned mission of the Gaganyan spacecraft to test the performance of the crew escape system; the second unmanned space mission will also be carried out at the end of 2022. Afterwards, three Indian Air Force officers will take a spaceship into space. Four Indian Air Force officers have been selected as astronaut candidates, whose identities remain confidential. According to the plan, India will carry out the first manned space launch in 2023. If successful, India would be the fourth country to master manned spaceflight technology after the United States, Russia and China.
In addition to these manned space programs, ISRO is also preparing for the Chandraya-3 lunar exploration, the Aditya-L1 probe that studies the sun, and the landing on Venus, all of which will take place before launching the space station. Eurasia Info wrote, "While the space station is the most ambitious project in ISRO's program, it will take some time to start." ”
Crew module of India's "Gaganyan" manned spacecraft
However, for the prospects of the space station, the Indian media is very optimistic. Nitin J. Ticku, an Indian defense analyst and editor-in-chief of Eurasia Info, said, "If you look at the historical records of China and India, you will have a clearer and more objective understanding of India's space station." From nuclear tests to anti-satellite tests, India has been catching up with China, and at a fairly fast pace. ”
"China's first nuclear test was in 1964, India's first nuclear test in 1974, which took a little more than 10 years to catch up; Beijing launched its first lunar probe, Chang'e-1, in 2007, new Delhi launched Chandraya-1 in 2008; China conducted its first anti-satellite test in 2007, followed by India in 2019. So ideally, now that the Asian giant (China) has launched its own space station, history suggests that India could have its own space station by 2030, as ISRO announced. This is the law we are seeing. ”
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