Chandrayaan-3 is Scheduled for Launch in August 2022

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said that Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled for launch in August 2022.
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Dr Jitendra Singh said, based on the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level experts, the realization of Chandrayaan-3 is in progress. Many related hardware and their special tests are successfully completed and the Launch is scheduled for August 2022.
The Minister informed that the number of missions planned during 2022 (Jan to Dec’22) are 19 viz., 08 Launch Vehicle Missions, 07 Spacecraft Missions and 04 Technology Demonstrator Missions.
Several ongoing missions were impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also,  reprioritization  of projects has taken place in the back drop of Space Sector reforms and newly introduced demand driven models. The following missions were realized in last 3 years.
List of Satellites launched in last 3 years’ time frame



Satellite Name
Launch Date
 


EOS-03
Aug 12, 2021


Amazonia-1
Feb 28, 2021


Satish Dhawan SAT (SDSAT)
Feb 28, 2021


UNITYsat
Feb 28, 2021


CMS-01
Dec 17, 2020


EOS-01
Nov 07, 2020


GSAT-30
Jan 17, 2020


RISAT-2BR1
Dec 11, 2019


Cartosat-3
Nov 27, 2019


Chandrayaan-2
Jul 22, 2019


RISAT-2B
May 22, 2019


EMISAT
Apr 01, 2019


GSAT-31
Feb 06, 2019


Microsat-R
Jan 24, 2019


Kalamsat-V2
Jan 24, 2019



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