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The percentage completion of qualification and validation of Crew Escape System and Parachute system of the human space flight rocket for next year will be 48.5 per cent. The readiness for the Indian human space flight during 2022-23 will be 50 per cent.

ISRO's Aditya-L1 mission, which will study the sun, will likely be launched this year, the Indian space agency's former chief A.S. Kiran Kumar said Friday.

The performance of the engine met the test objectives and the engine parameters were closely matching with the predictions during the entire duration of the test.

Somanath's appointment as the Space Secretary and the Space Commission Chairman is for a combined tenure of three years from the date of joining of the post, inclusive of an extension in tenure beyond the age of superannuation in public interest, the order said.

Interesting details of the Crew Module (CM), including the landing choices, crew escape system, and survival packets for each crew member of Gaganyaan, the country's maiden manned space mission, have come out.

The year also saw Agnikul Cosmos and Skyroot Aerospace raise additional funding from investors.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has also recognised NavIC as a component of the World-Wide Radio Navigation System (WWRNS).

K.Sivan, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space said ISRO has started working on reducing the space debris with its technologies like self eating rockets, vanishing satellites and robotic arms that catch the debris -- inactive satellites, rocket stages and others -- that are floating.

There are less than 10 such close-in systems known among the zoo of exoplanets known so far.

Both the orbiters orbit the moon in a nearly polar orbit and hence, both the spacecraft come close to each other over the Lunar poles.

It may be recalled that Modi had earlier promised a satellite for South Asian regions which was later released by ISRO in the form of GSAT-9/South Asia Satellite (formerly SAARC Satellite) a communication/meteorology satellite in 2017.

India is planning to boost the space sector in the global market. With an aim to make the country an economic space hub in the future, it also recently launched a new industry body, the Indian Space Association (ISpA).

The two-day workshop, organised by ISRO, is being live-streamed on the space agency's website and Facebook page, for effectively reaching the students, academia and institutes, and to engage the scientific community to analyse Chandrayaan-2 data.

The hot test was conducted for a duration of 450 seconds at the ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu.

ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organisation) second mission of the year received a setback on Thursday. The mission was to launch an earth observation satellite EOS-3 into the intended orbit.