Indian Space Launch Schedule

[Rassil Krishnan]

PSLV-C56/DS-SAR will be launched by July end..... official page is up

PSLV-C56/DS-SAR Mission

PSLV-C56/DS-SAR launch view gallery

PSLV-C56/DS-SAR Mission Gallery

yes it is on 26th july

 

[Indx TechStyle]

yes it is on 26th july

Postponed to 30th July now

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Updated per recent news

Orbital launches undertook in 2023

• 10th February - SSLV D2 - EOS02 (Microsat-2A)/AzaadiSAT (Both repeat payloads after D1 failure) /Janus-1 - Success
• 26th March - LVM3 M3 - 36 x OneWeb internet (Second lot) - Success
• 22nd April - PSLV-CA C55 - TeLEOS-2/LUMILITE-4 /POEM-2 (payloads from DOS, IIA & Indian private firms) - Success
• 29th May 2023 - GSLV F12 - NVS01 (First L1 band satellite of NAVIC) - Success
• 14th July 2023 - LVM3 M4 - Chandryaan-3 - Lander and rover to the Lunar South Pole - Success

Scheduled launch catalogue for 2023 in works

• 30th July 2023 - PSLV-CA C56 - DS-SAR /, ARCADE, VELOX-AM, SCOOB-II, NuLIoN, Galassia-2 , ORB-12 STRIDER
  
• Second-half August 2023 - PSLV-XL C57 - Aditya-L1 (First Indian mission to Sun)
• Q4 2023 - PSLV-?? C58 - DRDO ANVESHA (Hyperspectral payload/Space based Radar??)
• Q4 2023 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS
• Q4 2023 - SSLV-D3 or PSLV-?? C?? - XPoSAT (X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite), first dedicated Indian mission to study cosmic X-rays

Later planned in 2023 (not mentioned anymore in latest schedules)

• 2023 - PSLV-?? C59 - TDS01 (Technology demonstration mission to test electric propulsion, indigenous atomic clocks and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). Utilisee BN/SiO2 built EPS thrusters with a thrust of 300 mN for all operations including orbit raising manuevers).
• 2023 - PSLV-?? C60 - RISAT-1B
• 2023 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-1 (CMS04) - First Data Relay Satellite

Spacecraft which were planned this year but not mentioned above as no update or rescheduling data is there for long time

• 2023 - SSLV ??? - BlackSky Global-5, 6 and two other satellites

2024

• January 2024 - GSLV F16 - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. /
• February 2024 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1 - First unammned orbital test of Gaganyaan
  
• March 2024 - GSLV F1? - GISAT-2 aka EOS05 (Second Geo Imaging Satellite, India's GEO based multispectral satellite)
• 2024 - Vikram-I - Unknown payload (First orbital launch of Skyroot Aerospace, first Indian private firm to develop launch vehicle).
• 2024 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-1 aka CMS04 (Indian Data Relay Satellite System)
• 2024 - H3 (Japanese rocket) - Chandryaan-4 aka LUPEX or Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (Indo-Japanese lunar sampling mission) /
• 2024 - RLV-ORV - Undecided payload (First orbital flight of Indian RLV based on GSLV launch mechanism).
• Late 2024 - PSLV-XL C?? - SPADEX x 2 (Space Docking Experiment)
• Late 2024 or early 2025 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2 - Second unammned orbital test of Gaganyaan
• 2024 - PSLV-?? C?? - PROBA-3 (Twin European coronagraph satellites similar to Aditya L1 in function, with planned launch on PSLV).
• 2024 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-2

2025

• Early or mid 2025 - HLVM3 H1 - Gaganyaan-3 - First Indian manned mission to space

Undated/uncertain dates or long term programs:

• Mangalyaan-2 (Second orbiter to Mars), around 2024-25
• Astrosat-2
• GSAT21 & 22 aka CMS03.
• GSAT-7B, 7C, 7R.
• GSAT-32
• Resourcesat-3A & 3B.
• HRSAT
• Cartosat-3A & 3B
• DISHA x 2 (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes) around 2024-25
• TRISHNA (Thermanl Infrared Imaging Satellite for High Resolution Natrural Resource Assessment), around 2025-26.
• AHySiS (Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)
• Chandrayaan-5 & 6 (Sampling and sample return missions), around 2030-35
• Pratush (India's moon based telescope)
• IAD based Mangalyaan-3 (First soft landing on Mars), around 2030
• Shukryaan-1 (First Indian orbiter and probably lander or drone to Venus), 2031
• Indian mission to Jupiter+Venus Fly by - 2030s
• Indian missions to outerplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune), their satellites and asteroid Landers - Concept study
• Indian modular space station, after 2030
• INSIST, ExWorlds and other large space based telescopes

Notable suborbital flights this year (excludes ballistic missiles & ABMs and routine sounding rockets):
Executed:

• 3 April - RLV-LEX (Landing Experiment) - Drop from helicopter and horizontal landing test of RLV spaceplane on runway. - Success

Planned:

• August/September 2023 - TV-D1 based on GSLV's L40 stage - Unmanned crew module launch vehicle for high altitude pad abort test (max. altitude 15 km).
• H3/H4 2023 - Agnibaan's suborbital version (might include a semi-cryo engine) - Unknown payload.
• Q4 2023 - TV-D2 - Second crew module abort test
• 2024-25 - TV-A1 and TV-A2 - Third and fourth crew module abort test after launch of Gaganyaan-1.
• 2023-24 - 2 or 3 times RLV-LEX (Landing Experiment) - Precursor to first orbital flight of RLV-ORV in 2024.

The above totals:

2023 Tally to:
2 LVM3 (Both launched)
2 GSLV (1 launched + 1 scheduled)
4 PSLV (1 launched + 3 scheduled)
2 SSLV (1 launched +1 scheduled)
Totals to 10


2023 backlog to 2 PSLV + 1 GSLV which will be added to 2024 missions where already 10 missions are scheduled at the moment.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Launch activities for PSLV C57 (Aditya-L1) too have commenced.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

From post launch conference of PSLV C56.

• Quite accurate orbits were achieved this time.
• PS4 will be brought down to a 300 kms orbit so that it decays and falls down into sea faster (to mitigate space debris).
• Next PSLV mission (XL C57 Aditya L1) scheduled for later in August or early September.
• A full privately funded and built PSLV will be seen by early next year.
• TV-P1 for Gaganyaan demonstration under integration.
• SSLV D3 mission also confirmed (instead of PSLV for XPoSat as was in new earlier?).
• Next GSLV mission carrying INSAT-3DS confirmed this year.
• PSLV C58, C59 and C60 launches not mentioned anymore for this year.

So, we have +1 PSLV, +1 SSLV and +1 GSLV confirmed scheduling for this year.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Updated after today's launch.

Orbital launches undertook in 2023

• 10th February - SSLV D2 - EOS02 (Microsat-2A)/AzaadiSAT (Both repeat payloads after D1 failure) /Janus-1 - Success
• 26th March - LVM3 M3 - 36 x OneWeb internet (Second lot) - Success
• 22nd April - PSLV-CA C55 - TeLEOS-2/LUMILITE-4 /POEM-2 (payloads from DOS, IIA & Indian private firms) - Success
• 29th May 2023 - GSLV F12 - NVS01 (First L1 band satellite of NAVIC) - Success
• 14th July 2023 - LVM3 M4 - Chandryaan-3 - Lander and rover to the Lunar South Pole - Success
• 30th July 2023 - PSLV-CA C56 - DS-SAR /, ARCADE, VELOX-AM, SCOOB-II, NuLIoN, Galassia-2 , ORB-12 STRIDER - Success

Scheduled launch catalogue for 2023 in works

• Late August/early September 2023 - PSLV-XL C57 - Aditya-L1 (First Indian mission to Sun)
  
• Q4 2023 - SSLV-D3 - XPoSAT (X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite), first dedicated Indian mission to study cosmic X-rays (Or something else????)
• Q4 2023 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS

Later planned in 2023 (not mentioned anymore in latest schedules)

• Q4 2023 - PSLV-?? C58 - DRDO ANVESHA (Hyperspectral payload/Space based Radar??)
• 2023 - PSLV-?? C59 - TDS01 (Technology demonstration mission to test electric propulsion, indigenous atomic clocks and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). Utilisee BN/SiO2 built EPS thrusters with a thrust of 300 mN for all operations including orbit raising manuevers).
• 2023 - PSLV-?? C60 - RISAT-1B
• 2023 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-1 (CMS04) - First Data Relay Satellite

Spacecraft which were planned this year but not mentioned above as no update or rescheduling data is there for long time

• 2023 - SSLV ??? - BlackSky Global-5, 6 and two other satellites

2024

• January 2024 - GSLV F16 - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. /
• February 2024 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1 - First unammned orbital test of Gaganyaan
  
• March 2024 - GSLV F1? - GISAT-2 aka EOS05 (Second Geo Imaging Satellite, India's GEO based multispectral satellite)
• 2024 - Vikram-I - Unknown payload (First orbital launch of Skyroot Aerospace, first Indian private firm to develop launch vehicle).
• 2024 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-1 aka CMS04 (Indian Data Relay Satellite System)
• 2024 - H3 (Japanese rocket) - Chandryaan-4 aka LUPEX or Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (Indo-Japanese lunar sampling mission) /
• 2024 - RLV-ORV - Undecided payload (First orbital flight of Indian RLV based on GSLV launch mechanism).
• Late 2024 - PSLV-XL C?? - SPADEX x 2 (Space Docking Experiment)
• Late 2024 or early 2025 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2 - Second unammned orbital test of Gaganyaan
• 2024 - PSLV-?? C?? - PROBA-3 (Twin European coronagraph satellites similar to Aditya L1 in function, with planned launch on PSLV).
• 2024 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-2

2025

• Early or mid 2025 - HLVM3 H1 - Gaganyaan-3 - First Indian manned mission to space

Undated/uncertain dates or long term programs:

• Mangalyaan-2 (Second orbiter to Mars), around 2024-25
• Astrosat-2
• GSAT21 & 22 aka CMS03.
• GSAT-7B, 7C, 7R.
• GSAT-32
• Resourcesat-3A & 3B.
• HRSAT
• Cartosat-3A & 3B
• DISHA x 2 (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes) around 2024-25
• TRISHNA (Thermanl Infrared Imaging Satellite for High Resolution Natrural Resource Assessment), around 2025-26.
• AHySiS (Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)
• Chandrayaan-5 & 6 (Sampling and sample return missions), around 2030-35
• Pratush (India's moon based telescope)
• IAD based Mangalyaan-3 (First soft landing on Mars), around 2030
• Shukryaan-1 (First Indian orbiter and probably lander or drone to Venus), 2031
• Indian mission to Jupiter+Venus Fly by - 2030s
• Indian missions to outerplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune), their satellites and asteroid Landers - Concept study
• Indian modular space station, after 2030
• INSIST, ExWorlds and other large space based telescopes

Notable suborbital flights this year (excludes ballistic missiles & ABMs and routine sounding rockets):
Executed:

• 3 April - RLV-LEX (Landing Experiment) - Drop from helicopter and horizontal landing test of RLV spaceplane on runway. - Success

Planned:

• August/September 2023 - TV-D1 based on GSLV's L40 stage - Unmanned crew module launch vehicle for high altitude pad abort test (max. altitude 15 km).
• H3/H4 2023 - Agnibaan's suborbital version (might include a semi-cryo engine) - Unknown payload.
• Q4 2023 - TV-D2 - Second crew module abort test
• 2024-25 - TV-A1 and TV-A2 - Third and fourth crew module abort test after launch of Gaganyaan-1.
• 2023-24 - 2 or 3 times RLV-LEX (Landing Experiment) - Precursor to first orbital flight of RLV-ORV in 2024.

The above totals:

2023 Tally to:
2 LVM3 (Both launched)
2 GSLV (1 launched + 1 scheduled)
3 PSLV (2 launched + 1 scheduled)
2 SSLV (1 launched +1 scheduled)
Totals to 9


2023 backlog of 3 PSLV + 1 GSLV which will be added to 2024 missions where already 9 missions are scheduled at the moment.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

What would be all the pending launches of GSLV before it's retirement @Vamsi?

1. INSAT-3DS
2. IDRSS-1 & 2?
3. NISAR
4. GISAT-2
5. More NVS satellites?
6. And anything else?

 

[TopWatcher]

What would be all the pending launches of GSLV before it's retirement @Vamsi?

1. INSAT-3DS
2. IDRSS-1 & 2?
3. NISAR
4. GISAT-2
5. More NVS satellites?
6. And anything else?

Will send in 1 go in gslv mk3

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Will send in 1 go in gslv mk3

Explain?

 

[Vamsi]

What would be all the pending launches of GSLV before it's retirement @Vamsi?

1. INSAT-3DS
2. IDRSS-1 & 2?
3. NISAR
4. GISAT-2
5. More NVS satellites?
6. And anything else?

RLV-ORV & that's it

 

[Indx TechStyle]

RLV-ORV & that's it

Is a modified vehicle and might be used later, that's why I didn't include it.

So unless more IDRSS & NVS satellite are planned onboard GSLV, it will be retired in 2024 after launch of GISAT-2.

 

[Vamsi]

Is a modified vehicle and might be used later, that's why I didn't include it.

So unless more IDRSS & NVS satellite are planned onboard GSLV, it will be retired in 2024 after launch of GISAT-2.

NVS satellites would be launched untill 2026, 4 more NVS satellites remained, gap between each NVS Satellite would be atleast 6 months as said by ISRO chief

 

[Indx TechStyle]

NVS satellites would be launched untill 2026, 4 more NVS satellites remained, gap between each NVS Satellite would be atleast 6 months as said by ISRO chief

All by GSLV certainly?

 

[Vamsi]

All by GSLV certainly?

yes

 

[Indx TechStyle]

3 Indian space startups to launch satellites in FY24: IN-SPACe

Three private sector satellite makers are expected to send their earth observation satellites this fiscal, according to the sectoral regulator Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe).

The three companies are the Chennai-based GalaxEye Space Solutions Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad-based Dhruva Space and the Bengaluru-based Pixxel.

GalaxEye’s first satellite Dhrishti is expected to launch in the last quarter of 2023, said IN-SPACe.

GalaxEye plans high resolution multi payload microsatellite constellation, comprising optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payloads enabling data fusion using Drishti Sensors targeting environmental, Illegal Vessel Monitoring, insurance applications and others, IN-SPACe said in a consultation paper on the status and opportunities in Indian earth observation satellite segment.

On the other hand, Dhruva Space’s hyperspectral mission launch is scheduled during the first quarter of 2024.

The sectoral regulator also said Satsure’s subsidiary KaleidEO has planned a constellation of four satellites to provide images of 1 meter spatial resolution.

IN-SPACe did not specify any time for the launch of the satellites.

IN-SPACe said Pixxel has planned to launch the first commercial phase satellites in 2023 comprising six satellites covering any point on the globe every 48 hours. As regards approved earth observation satellite missions of the Indian Space Research Organisation in the near future are Resourcesat-Sampler 3S/3SA, Resourcesat-3 and 3A, RISAT-1B, TRISHNA (Joint ISRO-CNES,France Programme), NISAR (Joint NASA ISRO Programme), GISAT-1R and Oceansat-3A.

 

[SKC]

 

[RedPhantom]

PSLV C-57 (Aditya-L1) would most likely be launched in September first week instead.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Forecast as of now

Orbital launches undertook in 2023

• 10th February - SSLV D2 - EOS02 (Microsat-2A)/AzaadiSAT (Both repeat payloads after D1 failure) /Janus-1 - Success
• 26th March - LVM3 M3 - 36 x OneWeb internet (Second lot) - Success
• 22nd April - PSLV-CA C55 - TeLEOS-2/LUMILITE-4 /POEM-2 (payloads from DOS, IIA & Indian private firms) - Success
• 29th May 2023 - GSLV F12 - NVS01 (First L1 band satellite of NAVIC) - Success
• 14th July 2023 - LVM3 M4 - Chandryaan-3 - Lander and rover to the Lunar South Pole - Success
• 30th July 2023 - PSLV-CA C56 - DS-SAR /, ARCADE, VELOX-AM, SCOOB-II, NuLIoN, Galassia-2 , ORB-12 STRIDER - Success

Scheduled launch catalogue for 2023 in works

• NET 2nd September 2023 - PSLV-XL C57 - Aditya-L1 (First Indian mission to Sun)
  
• Q4 2023 - SSLV-D3 - XPoSAT (X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite), first dedicated Indian mission to study cosmic X-rays (Or something else????)
• Q4 2023 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS

Later planned in 2023 (not mentioned anymore in latest schedules)

• Q4 2023 - PSLV-?? C58 - DRDO ANVESHA (Hyperspectral payload/Space based Radar??)
• 2023 - PSLV-?? C59 - TDS01 (Technology demonstration mission to test electric propulsion, indigenous atomic clocks and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). Utilisee BN/SiO2 built EPS thrusters with a thrust of 300 mN for all operations including orbit raising manuevers).
• 2023 - PSLV-?? C60 - RISAT-1B
• 2023 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-1 (CMS04) - First Data Relay Satellite

Spacecraft which were planned this year but not mentioned above as no update or rescheduling data is there for long time

• 2023 - SSLV ??? - BlackSky Global-5, 6 and two other satellites

2024

• January 2024 - GSLV F16 - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. /
• February 2024 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1 - First unammned orbital test of Gaganyaan
  
• March 2024 - GSLV F1? - GISAT-2 aka EOS05 (Second Geo Imaging Satellite, India's GEO based multispectral satellite)
• 2024 - Vikram-I - Unknown payload (First orbital launch of Skyroot Aerospace, first Indian private firm to develop launch vehicle).
• 2024 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-1 aka CMS04 (Indian Data Relay Satellite System)
• 2024 - H3 (Japanese rocket) - Chandryaan-4 aka LUPEX or Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (Indo-Japanese lunar sampling mission) /
• 2024 - RLV-ORV - Undecided payload (First orbital flight of Indian RLV based on GSLV launch mechanism).
• Late 2024 - PSLV-XL C?? - SPADEX x 2 (Space Docking Experiment)
• Late 2024 or early 2025 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2 - Second unammned orbital test of Gaganyaan
• 2024 - PSLV-?? C?? - PROBA-3 (Twin European coronagraph satellites similar to Aditya L1 in function, with planned launch on PSLV).
• 2024 - GSLV F1? - IDRSS-2

2025

• Early or mid 2025 - HLVM3 H1 - Gaganyaan-3 - First Indian manned mission to space

Undated/uncertain dates or long term programs:

• Mangalyaan-2 (Second orbiter to Mars), around 2024-25
• Astrosat-2
• GSAT21 & 22 aka CMS03.
• GSAT-7B, 7C, 7R.
• GSAT-32
• Resourcesat-3A & 3B.
• HRSAT
• Cartosat-3A & 3B
• DISHA x 2 (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes) around 2024-25
• TRISHNA (Thermanl Infrared Imaging Satellite for High Resolution Natrural Resource Assessment), around 2025-26.
• AHySiS (Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)
• Chandrayaan-5 & 6 (Sampling and sample return missions), around 2030-35
• Pratush (India's moon based telescope)
• IAD based Mangalyaan-3 (First soft landing on Mars), around 2030
• Shukryaan-1 (First Indian orbiter and probably lander or drone to Venus), 2031
• Indian mission to Jupiter+Venus Fly by - 2030s
• Indian missions to outerplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune), their satellites and asteroid Landers - Concept study
• Indian modular space station, after 2030
• INSIST, ExWorlds and other large space based telescopes

Notable suborbital flights this year (excludes ballistic missiles & ABMs and routine sounding rockets):
Executed:

• 3 April - RLV-LEX (Landing Experiment) - Drop from helicopter and horizontal landing test of RLV spaceplane on runway. - Success

Planned:

• August/September 2023 - TV-D1 based on GSLV's L40 stage - Unmanned crew module launch vehicle for high altitude pad abort test (max. altitude 15 km).
• H3/H4 2023 - Agnibaan's suborbital version (might include a semi-cryo engine) - Unknown payload.
• Q4 2023 - TV-D2 - Second crew module abort test
• 2024-25 - TV-A1 and TV-A2 - Third and fourth crew module abort test after launch of Gaganyaan-1.
• 2023-24 - 2 or 3 times RLV-LEX (Landing Experiment) - Precursor to first orbital flight of RLV-ORV in 2024.

The above totals:

2023 Tally to:
2 LVM3 (Both launched)
2 GSLV (1 launched + 1 scheduled)
3 PSLV (2 launched + 1 scheduled)
2 SSLV (1 launched +1 scheduled)
Totals to 9


2023 backlog of 3 PSLV + 1 GSLV which will be added to 2024 missions where already 9 missions are scheduled at the moment.

 

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Is Vikram-1 launching this year or the next?

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Is Vikram-1 launching this year or the next?

This year.