Former ISRO chariman, G Madhavan Nair has addressed recently the international symposium on “science and technology at the frontiers” at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) .He has informed about the future missions of ISRO.
Here we are giving a joint information sourced from the G Madhvan Nair recent speak and ISRO website revealing its future programmes and objectives.
The main objective of SRE II is to realize a fully recoverable capsule and give a platform to conduct microgravity experiments on Micro-biology, Agriculture, Powder Metallurgy, etc. The First Indian space based Solar Coronagraph to study solar Corona in visible and near IR bands. Launch of the Aditya mission is planned during the next high solar activity period 2012. The goals intended to be obtained through this mission are to study the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and accordingly the crucial physical parameters for space weather such as the coronal magnetic field structures, evolution of the coronal magnetic field etc. and also to Provide completely new information on the velocity fields and their variability in the inner corona having an important bearing on the unsolved problem of heating of the corona would be obtained.
ASTROSAT is a multi-wavelength space borne astronomy satellite .This will be the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission. ASTROSAT has wide spectral coverage extending over visible, UV, soft X ray and hard X ray regions. This spacecraft would enable observations on the celestial bodies in both X-ray and UV spectral bands simultaneously. The scientific payloads cover the Visible (3500-6000 Å), UV (1300-3000 Å), soft and hard X-ray regimes (0.5-8 keV; 3-80 keV).The multi-wavelength astronomy mission Astrosat on an Indian remote sensing satellite-class satellite in a 650-km, near-equatorial orbit would be launched next year, he said, adding it will be launched by the Indian launch vehicle PSLV from the Sriharikota launchpad. The expected operating life time of the satellite will be of five years.
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