7. India has
achieved remarkable successes in unmanned
space missions including the
Chandrayaan and Mars Orbitter Mission
(MOM), but has not ventured into
manned space mission, both in terms of technology and logistics. Explain critically. (150 words)
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Ans. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) . is known for its low cost and high success rate missions. This capability of ISRO has also attracted other countries to launch their space missions with its help. India has launched successful unmanned missions like MOM (Mars Orbitter Mission) and Chandrayan but it is still lacking in the capacity to launch manned mission both in terms of technology as well as logistics. Their are various reasons responsible for this, like
·
Manned missions require high level of technology, returning (re-entry) capability of the spacecraft, high
payload launching ability of the launch vehicle etc. For these
purposes India's GSLV (Geostationary Satellite Launch
Vehicles) are not ready.
· Most of India's success story in the space mission is
written by PSLV which is not capable of launching the manned missions.
· India has not been helped by NASA or ESA in the field of
manned missions to much extent.
However it is not as if ISRO is doing nothing for the manned mission. It is building its capacity in the field of improving GSLVs e.g. ISRO in the last couple of years has
launched missions like GSLV-MK III (Cryogenic engine) with CARE (Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment) India is also working on space capsule recovery experiment-2 (SPE-2) that will demonstrate critical
technologies recoverable for
recoverable launch vehicles.
These developments show that the future is still bright and late may be but we will be successfully launching manned spacecraft in the near future.