Bengaluru: Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO )Chairman V. Narayanan speaks throughout the drape raiser occasion on marketing activities for Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC-2025), in Bengaluru, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)(PTI10_23_2025_000114A)|Image Credit: SHAILENDRA BHOJAK
ISRO has actually arranged 2 launches of its heavy-lift rocket LVM-3 to location in orbit 2 satellites– CMS-03 and personal United States interactions satellite BlueBird– before this year-end, chairman V Narayanan stated on Thursday.
Narayanan stated the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite, released on July 30, was presently in the calibration phase and will end up being functional within 10-15 days.
“The satellite is healthy and both the payloads are working well,” he included.
At an interview to reveal the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave 2025, the ISRO chief noted out future objectives of the area firm and asserted that 90 percent deal with the Gaganyaan task was total.
The Gaganyaan objective is India’s very first human spaceflight objective under advancement.
“Next month beginning, we are going to have the LVM3-M5 lift off to place a CMS-03 satellite,” Narayanan stated.
According to ISRO authorities, the CMS-03 likewise referred to as GSAT7-R is most likely to be introduced on November 2.
BlueBird-6, a 6.5 tonne satellite of a United States company, is anticipated to be introduced by the year-end, Narayanan stated.
“We have received the satellite and are working for the launch, and the launch vehicle build-up is going on,” the ISRO Chairman informed press reporters here.
Among the heaviest business satellites, BlueBird-6, gotten here in India from the United States on October 19.
Inquired about the development of Chandrayaan-4, the ISRO Chairman stated the job remains in its style stage.
“Right now, we are working on the design phase and its approved projects. Also establishing the infrastructure that is the basic standard,” he stated.
The Chandrayaan-4 objective consists of restoring moon rocks and soil to earth after a soft landing on the lunar surface area, introducing a spacecraft from the moon, showing an area docking experiment in lunar orbit and getting the samples back to earth.
Discussing NavIC, India’s native navigation satellite system, Narayanan stated, “We have four satellites and are building three more satellites. Yes, there were setbacks, but we’re working on it.” “The NavIC navigation constellation, too, will be completed within 18 months with three new satellites,” he included.
Reacting to a concern on the NVS-02 satellite which had a technical problem, he stated, “The satellite has gone to the elliptical orbit and we could not take it to circular orbit because of a valve malfunction.” The failure analysis committee formed to check out it has actually finished the examination and zeroed down on the fault, he stated.
“The recommendation of the committee will be placed before the government,” he included.
Specifying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has actually plainly laid out the area objective 2047, the ISRO chief stated today, India has around 56 satellites in the orbit serving the commoner of this nation.
“In another three to four years timeframe, the number of satellites are going to be increased to something around three times and by 2027, we are going to accomplish the Gaganyaan programme,” he stated.
“We are going to build our own space station called Bharatiya Antariksh Station by 2035 and first module, we have got the project approval and right now the work is going on and it is going to be placed in the orbit by 2028,” Narayanan stated.
Speaking on the next generation launcher, he stated that the ability of the very first launch was just 35 kg which was effectively achieved in the year 1980.
“Today, we are talking about something around 30,000 kg to low earth orbit through the next generation launcher. Also, PM Modi has given a guideline for building a launcher for enabling the crewed lunar mission,” the ISRO chief stated.
“We are in the conceiving phase. We have not completed the design but it has to lift off something about 75,000 to 80,000 kg type of mass it has to lift off. That is the type of work that is going on,” he included.
According to him, till today, around 433 satellites from 34 nations have actually been achieved. Out of that, practically 95 satellites were achieved throughout the last 10 years.
“That means when the entire launch programme started from 1980, in 45 years, the last 10 years is 95 per cent of the foreign satellite launch. That shows the exponential growth of the space sector,” he stated.
“Initially, we were going through the experimental phase, gradually we moved to operational phase. Today we have exponential growth,” Narayanan stated.
Released on October 24, 2025
