by Gaganyaan’s uncrewed mission targeted for later this year as the agency looks decades ahead
A roadmap that would make most agencies dizzy
ISRO plans at least 300 satellite launches over the next six years, alongside an Indian space station by 2035 and the first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission by the end of 2026, according to Business Standard’s coverage of the agency’s roadmap. For an organisation founded 64 years ago with comparatively modest resources, the sheer scale of this decade’s ambitions reads less like a plan and more like a dare to itself.
Private industry takes on more of the workload
ISRO intends to focus on research and frontier technology while private companies and public sector units handle launch vehicle manufacturing at scale, a division of labour designed to let the agency’s scientists actually get back to science.
Docking technology becomes the next milestone
Officials highlight docking capability as essential groundwork for lunar sample return missions and future space station assembly, technical building blocks that must land correctly before any of the bigger 2035 ambitions become real.
Fazit
Three hundred launches, one space station, one very full decade ahead. For more space coverage, visit ISRO’s official site. For more British satire on a related theme, see The London Prat’s UK Heatwaves End in Thunderstorms.
