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The prime minister on Tuesday asked space scientists to aim to establish an Indian Space Station by 2035 and send an Indian astronaut on the moon by 2040.

The Test Vehicle, a dedicated single-stage liquid rocket for this abort mission, carries payloads like the crew module (CM) and crew escape systems (CES), among other components.

ISRO has lined up a series of exploration missions including to Mars, Venus and to the Moon again, apart from the maiden human spaceflight programme

Times have changed and India is capable of building the best of devices and rockets and that is why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened the space sector to private players, he said at an event here.

ISRO launched the country's maiden solar mission -- Aditya-L1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on September 2

The Gaganyaan project envisages a demonstration of the human spaceflight capability by launching a human crew to an orbit of 400 km and bringing them safely back to earth by landing in Indian sea waters

During the closing session of the 16th edition of c0c0n, a two-day international cyber conference in Kochi, Kerala, Somanath emphasized that the likelihood of cyber-attacks is significantly elevated in rocket technology due to its reliance on cutting-edge software and chip-based hardware

As per ISRO, the triumph of this test flight will pave the way for subsequent qualification tests and unmanned missions, culminating in the inaugural Gaganyaan mission with Indian Astronauts.

Preparations are going on. All vehicle systems have reached Sriharikota. Final assembly is progressing. We are getting ready for launch by the end of October, Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre S Unnikrishnan Nair told media

Sushanth’s mother Sudharani is working as a teacher in Wardhannapet government school in Boinpalli mandal, while his father Rajesham is a coordinator in MEPMA of Sircilla municipality.

It would not be a problem even if Pragyan rover fails to `wake up' from the current sleep mode, said ISRO chief S Somanath

It's our good luck as it was our effort to soft-land on the Moon. It is the blessing of Lord Somnath that we were able to accomplish the mission. We have to work on other missions as well so we need strength and blessings," said the ISRO chief Somnath

Senior NIN nutritionists have collaborated with multiple research groups across the country to meet the nutritional requirements of the first Indian astronaut crew that will be part of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme

Special team of the Hyderabad Central Crime Station caught a four member gang who cheated a person of Rs 3 crore on pretext of selling a magnetic copper pot which is used for space research

We make sure that no single individual is penalised for failures because no decision is made by a single individual. All these decisions are taken by collective wisdom, Somanath said in an interactive session

"This achievement is a result of collaborations with various Indian laboratories, including national labs, defence labs, and CSIR labs, focusing on material indigenisation, technology capabilities, and research," he said.

Attempts to make contact with the lander and rover will continue, the national space agency said on social media platform X

Ahead of the second phase of the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, former Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO chief K Sivan expressed optimism and said that the success of the wakeup call regarding the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover is something which "we have to wait and see".

India is set to become the first nation in the world to witness the "waking up" of Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander and rover after the end of a two-week long "sleep"

The Congress party had earlier slammed the BJP government for taking the credit for the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission.