Indian Space Launch Schedule

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Updated list.

1. Launch status
2. Postponement of SPADEX and TDS-01.
3. New timeline for Chandrayaan-5.

Following launch vehicles have been in preparation work. I won't assign flight numbers to missions as that has been changing quickly.

PSLV - C61, C62, C63, N2 (N-flight d-notes privately built PSLV)
GSLV - F14, F16
SSLV - S1, S2

Orbital launches undertook in 2024
  • 1st January - PSLV-DL C58 - RRI XpoSat (First dedicated mission to study cosmic X-rays)/POEM-3
    [*][*]Radiation Shielding Experimental Module (RSEM) by TakeMe2Space to evaluate effectiveness of Tantalum coating for radiation shielding.
    [*]Women Engineered Satellite (WESAT) by LBS Institute of Technology for Women to compare and measure UV radiation in space and on Earth's surface in real-time.
    [*]BeliefSat-0: Amateur Band UHF to VHF FM voice repeater, and VHF APRS Digipeater satellite by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology.
    [*]Green Impulse TrAnsmitter (GITA): Green bipropellant CubeSat propulsion unit by Inspecity Space Labs Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Technologies-Technology Demonstrator (LEAP-TD): P-30 nanosatellite platform subsystems validation by Dhruva Space.
    [*]RUDRA 0.3 HPGP: Green Monopropellant Thruster by Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]ARKA200: Xenon based Hall-effect thruster (HET) by Bellatrix Aerospace.
    [*]Dust Experiment (DEX): Interplanetary dust count measurement by Physical Research Laboratory.
    [*]Fuel cell Power System (FCPS): Demonstration of 100 watt fuel cell power system by VSSC.
    [*]Si based High Energy cell: Demonstration of Silicon based High Energy cells by VSSC
    [*]VSSC's 100 W class Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell based Power System (FCPS)
    [*]10 Ah Silicon–Graphite anode based high energy density Li-ion cell.
    [*]Configured payload for testing Silicon–Graphite anode based Li-ion cell.
    - 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 17 February 2024 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 7 April 2024 - Falcon-9 Bandwagon-1 🇺🇲 - TSAT-1A, first of TASL's milsat constellation 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 16 August 2024 - SSLV D3 - EOS-08 aka Microsat-2C/SR-0 DemoSAT by SpaceKidZ India (concludes development of SSLV, establishing it officially as operational vehicle for commercial use) 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 23 November 2024 - Falcon-9 Block 5 🇺🇲 - GSAT-20 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 4 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C59 - PROBA-3 x 2 satellites (European Coronagraphy/solar exploration satellite set) 🇪🇺/MOI-TD (Takeme2Space) - AI enabled space based data center 🇮🇳 - Success
Orbital launches scheduled for 2024 & early 2025
  • 24 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C60 - SPADEX-1 x 2 (Space Docking and Recovery Experiment satellite set of 2 for future robotic missions) 🇮🇳
  • Q1 2025 - GSLV F1? - NVS-02 (Second L1 band satellite of NAVIC) 🇮🇳
  • Q1 2025 - PSLV-XL N1 - TDS-01 (Technology demonstration mission to test electric propulsion, indigenous atomic clocks and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). Utilises BN/SiO2 built EPS thrusters with a thrust of 300 mN for all operations including orbit raising manuevers) 🇮🇳, uses first privately built PSLV rocket
Orbital launches planned for 2025-26
  • Q1 2025 - GSLV F1? - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. 🇮🇳/🇺🇸
  • H1 2025 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1, first unmanned Gaganyaan.🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - GISAT-2 (EOS-05) or GISAT -1R
  • 2025-26 (overdue from 2022) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - IDRSS-1 (CMS-04) & IDRSS-2
  • H2 2025 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2, second unmanned Gaganyaan.🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? - RISAT-1B/POEM-4
    [*]Quantum Entanglement Studies in Space (QuantESS) by SAC/PRL.[*]Atomic Oxygen Sensor (ATOXS) by SPL/VSSC
    [*]PlasDEM (Plasmaspheric electron Density Measurements)
    [*]Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor (NUTS)
    [*]Smart Space Robot Experiment
    [*]Potential experiments related to space robotics, proximity operations etc.
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -DRDO ANVESHA (Hyperspectral payload/Space based Radar??)/CGUSat/LEAP-1 (Dhruvaspace)🇮🇳/SCOT🇬🇧
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -CartoSat-3A aka EOS-10🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -Undetermined commercial payload, Adayah, Drishti, Sanskardhaam, DS P30 x 2 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - PSLV-?? C? - JSSTU JNANAM (Student Sat) 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - LVM3 M? - Bluebird Block 2 (Blue Origin) 🇺🇸
  • 2026 - PSLV C? - TRISHNA (Thermanl Infrared Imaging Satellite for High Resolution Natrural Resource Assessment) 🇮🇳/🇫🇷
  • 2026 - GSLV F1? - NVS-03 (third satellite of second generation NAVIC) 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - SSLV S? x ? no. of flights - PARIKSHIT, Azista60°, Blacksky global and other commercial/NSIL payloads. 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - Vikram series & Agnibaan series - Unknown number of flights and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - LVM3 M? x ? no. of flights - GSAT-21, 22, new NSIL communication satellite and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - PSLV/LVM3 C?/M? - SPADEX -2 x ??, second SPADEX mission, India's first elliptical Orbital docking mission to demonstrate docking technology for Cdy-4 Moon soil sample return mission. 🇮🇳
  • H1 2026 - HLVM3 G3 - Gaganyaan-3, third unmanned Gaganyaan. 🇮🇳
  • H2 2026 or H1 2027 - HLVM3 H1 - Gaganyaan-4, India's first manned space mission. 🇮🇳
  • 2026-28 - HLVM3 G4 - Unknown docking spacecraft name, India's first cargo supply mission to International Space Station. 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
Beyond 2026 and ambiguous schedules
  • NET 2027 - HLVM3 H2 - Gaganyaan-5, India's second manned space mission.🇮🇳
  • NET 2028 - HLVM3 G5/B1 - BAS-B1, first module of Indian Orbital Station aka Bharatiya Antariskha Station.🇮🇳
  • No later than 29 March 2028 - LVM3 M? - Venus Orbiter Mission aka Shukryaan-1, first Indian mission to Venus, may or may not include lander 🇮🇳
  • 2028 - LVM3 M? & M? (2 launchers at same time) - Chandryaan-4, India's first sample return mission to Moon. Orbiters, landers and ascenders with no rovers. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 - H3 🇯🇵 (Japanese rocket) - Chandryaan-5 aka LUPEX or Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (Indo-Japanese lunar lander, rover and drilling mission) 🇮🇳/🇯🇵
  • 2028-35 - HLVM3 B2+ + NGLV rockets - BAS-B2+, follow on modules and assembly of Indian Orbital Station. 🇮🇳
  • NET 2031 - NGLV - ISS or BAS cargo payload, first flight of India's NGLV rocket. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 or later - LVM3/NGLV - ? x no. of flights - Indian Mars (IAD mechanism & Indian Mars Helicopter??) and Venus Landing Missions 🇮🇳
  • NET 2026 - RLV ORV - Unknown payload, first flight of GSLV based reusable launch system.
  • 2027-2034 - LVM3/NGLV - Technology demonstration mission series for manned moon landings 🇮🇳
Missions with no further specific timelines or no updates anymore or long term goals
  • Astrosat-2
  • Completion of BAS and further cargo missions: 2035+
  • Chandrayaan-6 & 7 (RTEG based advanced sample return or long duration rover operation missions) - 2030s
  • Pratush (India's moon based telescope) - 2027-34
  • India's Lunar Relay and Navigation satellite constellation - 2029-32
  • Crewed Lunar Orbital Mission (India's circumlunar manned spaceflight missions) - 2035+
  • Unmanned Human Lunar Lander and Return Missions x 2 nos; each on two launchers: 2037-38
  • Indian Human Soft Landing on Moon (using two launch vehicles): 2040
  • Development of Bharatiya Chandrama Antariksha Station & further cargo missions (Indian Lunar Orbital Station) - 2040+
  • Indian habitats and sustainable presence on Moon's surface and orbit - 2045+
  • GSAT-7B, 7C, 7R.
  • GSAT-32
  • Resourcesat-3A & 3B.
  • HRSAT
  • Cartosat-3B
  • DISHA x 2 (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes)
  • AHySiS (Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)
  • Indian mission to Jupiter+Venus Fly by - 2030s
  • Indian missions to outerplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune), their satellites - In study
  • Indian Asteroid Landing Mission - Concept
  • INSIST, ExWorlds and other large space based telescopes
 
Updated list.

1. Launch status
2. Postponement of SPADEX and TDS-01.
3. New timeline for Chandrayaan-5.

Following launch vehicles have been in preparation work. I won't assign flight numbers to missions as that has been changing quickly.

PSLV - C61, C62, C63, N2 (N-flight d-notes privately built PSLV)
GSLV - F14, F16
SSLV - S1, S2

Orbital launches undertook in 2024
  • 1st January - PSLV-DL C58 - RRI XpoSat (First dedicated mission to study cosmic X-rays)/POEM-3
    [*][*]Radiation Shielding Experimental Module (RSEM) by TakeMe2Space to evaluate effectiveness of Tantalum coating for radiation shielding.
    [*]Women Engineered Satellite (WESAT) by LBS Institute of Technology for Women to compare and measure UV radiation in space and on Earth's surface in real-time.
    [*]BeliefSat-0: Amateur Band UHF to VHF FM voice repeater, and VHF APRS Digipeater satellite by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology.
    [*]Green Impulse TrAnsmitter (GITA): Green bipropellant CubeSat propulsion unit by Inspecity Space Labs Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Technologies-Technology Demonstrator (LEAP-TD): P-30 nanosatellite platform subsystems validation by Dhruva Space.
    [*]RUDRA 0.3 HPGP: Green Monopropellant Thruster by Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]ARKA200: Xenon based Hall-effect thruster (HET) by Bellatrix Aerospace.
    [*]Dust Experiment (DEX): Interplanetary dust count measurement by Physical Research Laboratory.
    [*]Fuel cell Power System (FCPS): Demonstration of 100 watt fuel cell power system by VSSC.
    [*]Si based High Energy cell: Demonstration of Silicon based High Energy cells by VSSC
    [*]VSSC's 100 W class Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell based Power System (FCPS)
    [*]10 Ah Silicon–Graphite anode based high energy density Li-ion cell.
    [*]Configured payload for testing Silicon–Graphite anode based Li-ion cell.
    - 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 17 February 2024 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 7 April 2024 - Falcon-9 Bandwagon-1 🇺🇲 - TSAT-1A, first of TASL's milsat constellation 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 16 August 2024 - SSLV D3 - EOS-08 aka Microsat-2C/SR-0 DemoSAT by SpaceKidZ India (concludes development of SSLV, establishing it officially as operational vehicle for commercial use) 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 23 November 2024 - Falcon-9 Block 5 🇺🇲 - GSAT-20 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 4 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C59 - PROBA-3 x 2 satellites (European Coronagraphy/solar exploration satellite set) 🇪🇺/MOI-TD (Takeme2Space) - AI enabled space based data center 🇮🇳 - Success
Orbital launches scheduled for 2024 & early 2025
  • 24 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C60 - SPADEX-1 x 2 (Space Docking and Recovery Experiment satellite set of 2 for future robotic missions) 🇮🇳
  • Q1 2025 - GSLV F1? - NVS-02 (Second L1 band satellite of NAVIC) 🇮🇳
  • Q1 2025 - PSLV-XL N1 - TDS-01 (Technology demonstration mission to test electric propulsion, indigenous atomic clocks and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). Utilises BN/SiO2 built EPS thrusters with a thrust of 300 mN for all operations including orbit raising manuevers) 🇮🇳, uses first privately built PSLV rocket
Orbital launches planned for 2025-26
  • Q1 2025 - GSLV F1? - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. 🇮🇳/🇺🇸
  • H1 2025 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1, first unmanned Gaganyaan.🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - GISAT-2 (EOS-05) or GISAT -1R
  • 2025-26 (overdue from 2022) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - IDRSS-1 (CMS-04) & IDRSS-2
  • H2 2025 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2, second unmanned Gaganyaan.🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? - RISAT-1B/POEM-4
    [*]Quantum Entanglement Studies in Space (QuantESS) by SAC/PRL.[*]Atomic Oxygen Sensor (ATOXS) by SPL/VSSC
    [*]PlasDEM (Plasmaspheric electron Density Measurements)
    [*]Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor (NUTS)
    [*]Smart Space Robot Experiment
    [*]Potential experiments related to space robotics, proximity operations etc.
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -DRDO ANVESHA (Hyperspectral payload/Space based Radar??)/CGUSat/LEAP-1 (Dhruvaspace)🇮🇳/SCOT🇬🇧
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -CartoSat-3A aka EOS-10🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -Undetermined commercial payload, Adayah, Drishti, Sanskardhaam, DS P30 x 2 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - PSLV-?? C? - JSSTU JNANAM (Student Sat) 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - LVM3 M? - Bluebird Block 2 (Blue Origin) 🇺🇸
  • 2026 - PSLV C? - TRISHNA (Thermanl Infrared Imaging Satellite for High Resolution Natrural Resource Assessment) 🇮🇳/🇫🇷
  • 2026 - GSLV F1? - NVS-03 (third satellite of second generation NAVIC) 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - SSLV S? x ? no. of flights - PARIKSHIT, Azista60°, Blacksky global and other commercial/NSIL payloads. 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - Vikram series & Agnibaan series - Unknown number of flights and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - LVM3 M? x ? no. of flights - GSAT-21, 22, new NSIL communication satellite and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - PSLV/LVM3 C?/M? - SPADEX -2 x ??, second SPADEX mission, India's first elliptical Orbital docking mission to demonstrate docking technology for Cdy-4 Moon soil sample return mission. 🇮🇳
  • H1 2026 - HLVM3 G3 - Gaganyaan-3, third unmanned Gaganyaan. 🇮🇳
  • H2 2026 or H1 2027 - HLVM3 H1 - Gaganyaan-4, India's first manned space mission. 🇮🇳
  • 2026-28 - HLVM3 G4 - Unknown docking spacecraft name, India's first cargo supply mission to International Space Station. 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
Beyond 2026 and ambiguous schedules
  • NET 2027 - HLVM3 H2 - Gaganyaan-5, India's second manned space mission.🇮🇳
  • NET 2028 - HLVM3 G5/B1 - BAS-B1, first module of Indian Orbital Station aka Bharatiya Antariskha Station.🇮🇳
  • No later than 29 March 2028 - LVM3 M? - Venus Orbiter Mission aka Shukryaan-1, first Indian mission to Venus, may or may not include lander 🇮🇳
  • 2028 - LVM3 M? & M? (2 launchers at same time) - Chandryaan-4, India's first sample return mission to Moon. Orbiters, landers and ascenders with no rovers. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 - H3 🇯🇵 (Japanese rocket) - Chandryaan-5 aka LUPEX or Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (Indo-Japanese lunar lander, rover and drilling mission) 🇮🇳/🇯🇵
  • 2028-35 - HLVM3 B2+ + NGLV rockets - BAS-B2+, follow on modules and assembly of Indian Orbital Station. 🇮🇳
  • NET 2031 - NGLV - ISS or BAS cargo payload, first flight of India's NGLV rocket. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 or later - LVM3/NGLV - ? x no. of flights - Indian Mars (IAD mechanism & Indian Mars Helicopter??) and Venus Landing Missions 🇮🇳
  • NET 2026 - RLV ORV - Unknown payload, first flight of GSLV based reusable launch system.
  • 2027-2034 - LVM3/NGLV - Technology demonstration mission series for manned moon landings 🇮🇳
Missions with no further specific timelines or no updates anymore or long term goals
  • Astrosat-2
  • Completion of BAS and further cargo missions: 2035+
  • Chandrayaan-6 & 7 (RTEG based advanced sample return or long duration rover operation missions) - 2030s
  • Pratush (India's moon based telescope) - 2027-34
  • India's Lunar Relay and Navigation satellite constellation - 2029-32
  • Crewed Lunar Orbital Mission (India's circumlunar manned spaceflight missions) - 2035+
  • Unmanned Human Lunar Lander and Return Missions x 2 nos; each on two launchers: 2037-38
  • Indian Human Soft Landing on Moon (using two launch vehicles): 2040
  • Development of Bharatiya Chandrama Antariksha Station & further cargo missions (Indian Lunar Orbital Station) - 2040+
  • Indian habitats and sustainable presence on Moon's surface and orbit - 2045+
  • GSAT-7B, 7C, 7R.
  • GSAT-32
  • Resourcesat-3A & 3B.
  • HRSAT
  • Cartosat-3B
  • DISHA x 2 (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes)
  • AHySiS (Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)
  • Indian mission to Jupiter+Venus Fly by - 2030s
  • Indian missions to outerplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune), their satellites - In study
  • Indian Asteroid Landing Mission - Concept
  • INSIST, ExWorlds and other large space based telescopes
Wat about MLM??
 
Updated list.
Updates on SPADEX, Gaganyaan-1, NVS-02 and Gaganyaan-1. 4 launches planned till March 2025 now, at least 3 of them should happen which would include SPADEX and Gaganyaan.

Following launch vehicles have been in preparation work. I won't assign flight numbers to missions as that has been changing quickly.

PSLV - C61, C62, C63, N2 (N-flight d-notes privately built PSLV)
GSLV - F14, F16
SSLV - S1, S2

Orbital launches undertook in 2024
  • 1st January - PSLV-DL C58 - RRI XpoSat (First dedicated mission to study cosmic X-rays)/POEM-3
    [*][*]Radiation Shielding Experimental Module (RSEM) by TakeMe2Space to evaluate effectiveness of Tantalum coating for radiation shielding.
    [*]Women Engineered Satellite (WESAT) by LBS Institute of Technology for Women to compare and measure UV radiation in space and on Earth's surface in real-time.
    [*]BeliefSat-0: Amateur Band UHF to VHF FM voice repeater, and VHF APRS Digipeater satellite by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology.
    [*]Green Impulse TrAnsmitter (GITA): Green bipropellant CubeSat propulsion unit by Inspecity Space Labs Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Technologies-Technology Demonstrator (LEAP-TD): P-30 nanosatellite platform subsystems validation by Dhruva Space.
    [*]RUDRA 0.3 HPGP: Green Monopropellant Thruster by Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]ARKA200: Xenon based Hall-effect thruster (HET) by Bellatrix Aerospace.
    [*]Dust Experiment (DEX): Interplanetary dust count measurement by Physical Research Laboratory.
    [*]Fuel cell Power System (FCPS): Demonstration of 100 watt fuel cell power system by VSSC.
    [*]Si based High Energy cell: Demonstration of Silicon based High Energy cells by VSSC
    [*]VSSC's 100 W class Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell based Power System (FCPS)
    [*]10 Ah Silicon–Graphite anode based high energy density Li-ion cell.
    [*]Configured payload for testing Silicon–Graphite anode based Li-ion cell.
    - 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 17 February 2024 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 7 April 2024 - Falcon-9 Bandwagon-1 🇺🇲 - TSAT-1A, first of TASL's milsat constellation 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 16 August 2024 - SSLV D3 - EOS-08 aka Microsat-2C/SR-0 DemoSAT by SpaceKidZ India (concludes development of SSLV, establishing it officially as operational vehicle for commercial use) 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 23 November 2024 - Falcon-9 Block 5 🇺🇲 - GSAT-20 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 4 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C59 - PROBA-3 x 2 satellites (European Coronagraphy/solar exploration satellite set) 🇪🇺/MOI-TD (Takeme2Space) - AI enabled space based data center 🇮🇳 - Success
Orbital launches scheduled for 2024 & early 2025
  • 30 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C60 - SPADEX-1 x 2 (Space Docking and Recovery Experiment satellite set of 2 for future robotic missions) 🇮🇳
  • Mid-January 2025 - GSLV F1? - NVS-02 (Second L1 band satellite of NAVIC) 🇮🇳
  • End Januray or early February 2025 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1, first orbital (unmanned) of first generation Gaganyaan spacecraft carrying Vyommitra android. 🇮🇳
  • End March 2025 - GSLV F1? - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. 🇮🇳/🇺🇸
Orbital launches planned for 2025-26
  • Q1 2025 - PSLV-XL N1 - TDS-01 (Technology demonstration mission to test electric propulsion, indigenous atomic clocks and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). Utilises BN/SiO2 built EPS thrusters with a thrust of 300 mN for all operations including orbit raising manuevers) 🇮🇳, uses first privately built PSLV rocket
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - GISAT-2 (EOS-05) or GISAT -1R
  • 2025-26 (overdue from 2022) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - IDRSS-1 (CMS-04) & IDRSS-2
  • H2 2025 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2, second unmanned Gaganyaan.🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? - RISAT-1B/POEM-4
    [*]Quantum Entanglement Studies in Space (QuantESS) by SAC/PRL.[*]Atomic Oxygen Sensor (ATOXS) by SPL/VSSC
    [*]PlasDEM (Plasmaspheric electron Density Measurements)
    [*]Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor (NUTS)
    [*]Smart Space Robot Experiment
    [*]Potential experiments related to space robotics, proximity operations etc.
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -DRDO ANVESHA (Hyperspectral payload/Space based Radar??)/CGUSat/LEAP-1 (Dhruvaspace)🇮🇳/SCOT🇬🇧
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -CartoSat-3A aka EOS-10🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -Undetermined commercial payload, Adayah, Drishti, Sanskardhaam, DS P30 x 2 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - PSLV-?? C? - JSSTU JNANAM (Student Sat) 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - LVM3 M? - Bluebird Block 2 (Blue Origin) 🇺🇸
  • 2026 - PSLV C? - TRISHNA (Thermanl Infrared Imaging Satellite for High Resolution Natrural Resource Assessment) 🇮🇳/🇫🇷
  • 2026 - GSLV F1? - NVS-03 (third satellite of second generation NAVIC) 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - SSLV S? x ? no. of flights - PARIKSHIT, Azista60°, Blacksky global and other commercial/NSIL payloads. 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - Vikram series & Agnibaan series - Unknown number of flights and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - LVM3 M? x ? no. of flights - GSAT-21, 22, new NSIL communication satellite and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - PSLV/LVM3 C?/M? - SPADEX -2 x ??, second SPADEX mission, India's first elliptical Orbital docking mission to demonstrate docking technology for Cdy-4 Moon soil sample return mission. 🇮🇳
  • H1 2026 - HLVM3 G3 - Gaganyaan-3, third unmanned Gaganyaan. 🇮🇳
  • H2 2026 or H1 2027 - HLVM3 H1 - Gaganyaan-4, India's first manned space mission. 🇮🇳
  • 2026-28 - HLVM3 G4 - Unknown docking spacecraft name, India's first cargo supply mission to International Space Station. 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
Beyond 2026 and ambiguous schedules
  • NET 2027 - HLVM3 H2 - Gaganyaan-5, India's second manned space mission.🇮🇳
  • NET 2028 - HLVM3 G5/B1 - BAS-B1, first module of Indian Orbital Station aka Bharatiya Antariskha Station.🇮🇳
  • No later than 29 March 2028 - LVM3 M? - Venus Orbiter Mission aka Shukryaan-1, first Indian mission to Venus, may or may not include lander 🇮🇳
  • 2028 - LVM3 M? & M? (2 launchers at same time) - Chandryaan-4, India's first sample return mission to Moon. Orbiters, landers and ascenders with no rovers. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 - H3 🇯🇵 (Japanese rocket) - Chandryaan-5 aka LUPEX or Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (Indo-Japanese lunar lander, rover and drilling mission) 🇮🇳/🇯🇵
  • 2028-35 - HLVM3 B2+ + NGLV rockets - BAS-B2+, follow on modules and assembly of Indian Orbital Station. 🇮🇳
  • NET 2031 - NGLV - ISS or BAS cargo payload, first flight of India's NGLV rocket. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 or later - LVM3/NGLV - ? x no. of flights - Indian Mars (IAD mechanism & Indian Mars Helicopter??) and Venus Landing Missions 🇮🇳
  • NET 2026 - RLV ORV - Unknown payload, first flight of GSLV based reusable launch system.
  • 2027-2034 - LVM3/NGLV - Technology demonstration mission series for manned moon landings 🇮🇳
Missions with no further specific timelines or no updates anymore or long term goals
  • Astrosat-2
  • Completion of BAS and further cargo missions: 2035+
  • Chandrayaan-6 & 7 (RTEG based advanced sample return or long duration rover operation missions) - 2030s
  • Pratush (India's moon based telescope) - 2027-34
  • India's Lunar Relay and Navigation satellite constellation - 2029-32
  • Crewed Lunar Orbital Mission (India's circumlunar manned spaceflight missions) - 2035+
  • Unmanned Human Lunar Lander and Return Missions x 2 nos; each on two launchers: 2037-38
  • Indian Human Soft Landing on Moon (using two launch vehicles): 2040
  • Development of Bharatiya Chandrama Antariksha Station & further cargo missions (Indian Lunar Orbital Station) - 2040+
  • Indian habitats and sustainable presence on Moon's surface and orbit - 2045+
  • GSAT-7B, 7C, 7R.
  • GSAT-32
  • Resourcesat-3A & 3B.
  • HRSAT
  • Cartosat-3B
  • DISHA x 2 (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes)
  • AHySiS (Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)
  • Indian mission to Jupiter+Venus Fly by - 2030s
  • Indian missions to outerplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune), their satellites - In study
  • Indian Asteroid Landing Mission - Concept
  • INSIST, ExWorlds and other large space based telescopes
 
2025 stipulates:
  • 2 or more LVM3 launches
  • 4 GSLV launches
  • 3 PSLV launches
  • 1 SSLV launch
That looks realistic this time.

LVM3: Gaganyaan-1, BlueBird-2 and Gaganyaan-2

GSLV: NVS-02, NISAR, GISAT-2 certainly. Fourth would be NVS-03 or IDRSS-01??

PSLV: TDS-01, DRDO ANVESHA, RISAT-1B or CartoSat-3A?

SSLV: ??
 
2025 stipulates:
  • 2 or more LVM3 launches
  • 4 GSLV launches
  • 3 PSLV launches
  • 1 SSLV launch:confusedd:
That looks realistic this time.

LVM3: Gaganyaan-1, BlueBird-2 and Gaganyaan-2

GSLV: NVS-02, NISAR, GISAT-2 certainly. Fourth would be NVS-03 or IDRSS-01??

PSLV: TDS-01, DRDO ANVESHA, RISAT-1B or CartoSat-3A?

SSLV: ??

For the umpteenth time-:), please excuse the ignorance !

We know that the LMV3 for Gaganyaan-1, is sitting fully assembled at SHAR, probably still awaiting payloads for the G1. Now, with GSLV Mk2 to be launched in January with NVS-2, and another Gslv Mk 2 launch in March( NISAR) , how is there room for 3 assemblies and launches in 3 months, or less, from the 2nd launch pad? Is there more than one assembly facility for the GSLVs? 1736100951199.gif
 
For the umpteenth time-:), please excuse the ignorance !

We know that the LMV3 for Gaganyaan-1, is sitting fully assembled at SHAR, probably still awaiting payloads for the G1. Now, with GSLV Mk2 to be launched in January with NVS-2, and another Gslv Mk 2 launch in March( NISAR) , how is there room for 3 assemblies and launches in 3 months, or less, from the 2nd launch pad? Is there more than one assembly facility for the GSLVs? View attachment 20801
Sorry for replying late.

Gaganyaan-1 has been postponed by minimum 2 months now.
 
Updated list. for 2025 and beyond.

Orbital launches undertook in 2024
  • 1st January - PSLV-DL C58 - RRI XpoSat (First dedicated mission to study cosmic X-rays)/POEM-3
    [*][*]Radiation Shielding Experimental Module (RSEM) by TakeMe2Space to evaluate effectiveness of Tantalum coating for radiation shielding.
    [*]Women Engineered Satellite (WESAT) by LBS Institute of Technology for Women to compare and measure UV radiation in space and on Earth's surface in real-time.
    [*]BeliefSat-0: Amateur Band UHF to VHF FM voice repeater, and VHF APRS Digipeater satellite by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology.
    [*]Green Impulse TrAnsmitter (GITA): Green bipropellant CubeSat propulsion unit by Inspecity Space Labs Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Technologies-Technology Demonstrator (LEAP-TD): P-30 nanosatellite platform subsystems validation by Dhruva Space.
    [*]RUDRA 0.3 HPGP: Green Monopropellant Thruster by Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]ARKA200: Xenon based Hall-effect thruster (HET) by Bellatrix Aerospace.
    [*]Dust Experiment (DEX): Interplanetary dust count measurement by Physical Research Laboratory.
    [*]Fuel cell Power System (FCPS): Demonstration of 100 watt fuel cell power system by VSSC.
    [*]Si based High Energy cell: Demonstration of Silicon based High Energy cells by VSSC
    [*]VSSC's 100 W class Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell based Power System (FCPS)
    [*]10 Ah Silicon–Graphite anode based high energy density Li-ion cell.
    [*]Configured payload for testing Silicon–Graphite anode based Li-ion cell.
    - 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 17 February 2024 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 7 April 2024 - Falcon-9 Bandwagon-1 🇺🇲 - TSAT-1A, first of TASL's milsat constellation 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 16 August 2024 - SSLV D3 - EOS-08 aka Microsat-2C/SR-0 DemoSAT by SpaceKidZ India (concludes development of SSLV, establishing it officially as operational vehicle for commercial use) 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 23 November 2024 - Falcon-9 Block 5 🇺🇲 - GSAT-20 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 4 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C59 - PROBA-3 x 2 satellites (European Coronagraphy/solar exploration satellite set) 🇪🇺/MOI-TD (Takeme2Space) - AI enabled space based data center 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 30 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C60 - SPADEX-1 x 2 (Space Docking and Recovery Experiment satellite set of 2 for future robotic missions) 🇮🇳 - Success

Orbital launches undertook in 2025
  • 29 January 2025 - GSLV F15 - NVS-02 (Second L1 band satellite of NAVIC) 🇮🇳 - Success
Orbital launches scheduled for 2025
  • 18 May 2025 - PSLV C61 - EOS-09 aka RISAT-1B, CGUSAT, LEAP-1 (DSPL) 🇮🇳, 🇳🇵MUNAL, 🇺🇸Phoenix, 🇵🇱 Sowa-1
  • June 2025 - GSLV F16 - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. 🇮🇳/🇺🇸
  • End 2025 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1, first orbital (unmanned) of first generation Gaganyaan spacecraft carrying Vyommitra android. 🇮🇳
I will write up further in next post tomorrow.
 

For launch schedule
 
Updated list as of now. Someone may ping me the list of Indian satellites launched on foreign platforms which I may have missed out.

Orbital launches undertook in 2024
  • 1st January - PSLV-DL C58 - RRI XpoSat (First dedicated mission to study cosmic X-rays)/POEM-3
    [*][*]Radiation Shielding Experimental Module (RSEM) by TakeMe2Space to evaluate effectiveness of Tantalum coating for radiation shielding.
    [*]Women Engineered Satellite (WESAT) by LBS Institute of Technology for Women to compare and measure UV radiation in space and on Earth's surface in real-time.
    [*]BeliefSat-0: Amateur Band UHF to VHF FM voice repeater, and VHF APRS Digipeater satellite by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology.
    [*]Green Impulse TrAnsmitter (GITA): Green bipropellant CubeSat propulsion unit by Inspecity Space Labs Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Technologies-Technology Demonstrator (LEAP-TD): P-30 nanosatellite platform subsystems validation by Dhruva Space.
    [*]RUDRA 0.3 HPGP: Green Monopropellant Thruster by Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.
    [*]ARKA200: Xenon based Hall-effect thruster (HET) by Bellatrix Aerospace.
    [*]Dust Experiment (DEX): Interplanetary dust count measurement by Physical Research Laboratory.
    [*]Fuel cell Power System (FCPS): Demonstration of 100 watt fuel cell power system by VSSC.
    [*]Si based High Energy cell: Demonstration of Silicon based High Energy cells by VSSC
    [*]VSSC's 100 W class Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell based Power System (FCPS)
    [*]10 Ah Silicon–Graphite anode based high energy density Li-ion cell.
    [*]Configured payload for testing Silicon–Graphite anode based Li-ion cell.
    - 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 17 February 2024 - GSLV F14 - INSAT-3DS 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 7 April 2024 - Falcon-9 Bandwagon-1 🇺🇲 - TSAT-1A, first of TASL's milsat constellation 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 16 August 2024 - SSLV D3 - EOS-08 aka Microsat-2C/SR-0 DemoSAT by SpaceKidZ India (concludes development of SSLV, establishing it officially as operational vehicle for commercial use) 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 23 November 2024 - Falcon-9 Block 5 🇺🇲 - GSAT-20 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 4 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C59 - PROBA-3 x 2 satellites (European Coronagraphy/solar exploration satellite set) 🇪🇺/MOI-TD (Takeme2Space) - AI enabled space based data center 🇮🇳 - Success
  • 30 December 2024 - PSLV-XL C60 - SPADEX-1 x 2 (Space Docking and Recovery Experiment satellite set of 2 for future robotic missions) 🇮🇳 - Success

Orbital launches undertook in 2025
  • 29 January 2025 - GSLV F15 - NVS-02 (Second L1 band satellite of NAVIC) 🇮🇳 - Success (Thruster issue at spacecraft later, in limited service).
  • 18 May 2025 - PSLV C61 - EOS-09 aka RISAT-1B, CGUSAT, LEAP-1 (DSPL) 🇮🇳, 🇳🇵MUNAL, 🇺🇸Phoenix, 🇵🇱 Sowa-1 - Launch Failure (3rd stage pressure drop, 3rd failure for PSLV throughout its career)
Orbital launches scheduled
  • 18 June 2025 - GSLV F16 - NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) - First space based radar in world with dual frequencies. 🇮🇳/🇺🇸
  • July 2025 - LVM3 M5 - Bluebird Block 2 (Blue Origin) 🇺🇸
  • Q3 2025 - PSLV-XL N1 - TDS-01 (Technology demonstration mission to test electric propulsion, indigenous atomic clocks and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA). Utilises BN/SiO2 built EPS thrusters with a thrust of 300 mN for all operations including orbit raising manuevers) 🇮🇳, uses first privately built PSLV rocket.
  • November 2025 - PSLV C62 - Oceansat 3A🇮🇳
  • December 2025 - HLVM3 G1 - Gaganyaan-1, first orbital (unmanned) of first generation Gaganyaan spacecraft carrying Vyommitra android. 🇮🇳
  • H1 2026 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2, second unmanned Gaganyaan.🇮🇳
  • H2 2026 - HLVM3 G2 - Gaganyaan-2, second unmanned Gaganyaan.🇮🇳
  • H2 2026 or H1 2027 - HLVM3 H1 - Gaganyaan-4, India's first manned space mission. 🇮🇳
Old Pendency with no updates yet
  • 2025-26 (overdue from 2024) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - GISAT-2 (EOS-05) or GISAT -1R
  • 2025-26 (overdue from 2022) - GSLV F1? x 2 flights - IDRSS-1 (CMS-04) & IDRSS-2.
  • PSLV-QL/DL C?? - POEM-4
    [*]Quantum Entanglement Studies in Space (QuantESS) by SAC/PRL.[*]Atomic Oxygen Sensor (ATOXS) by SPL/VSSC[*]PlasDEM (Plasmaspheric electron Density Measurements)
    [*]Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor (NUTS)
    [*]Smart Space Robot Experiment
    [*]Potential experiments related to space robotics, proximity operations etc.
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -DRDO ANVESHA (Hyperspectral payload/Space based Radar??)/CGUSat/LEAP-1 (Dhruvaspace)🇮🇳/SCOT🇬🇧
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -CartoSat-3A aka EOS-10🇮🇳
  • 2025 (overdue from 2024) - PSLV C? -Undetermined commercial payload, Adayah, Drishti, Sanskardhaam, DS P30 x 2 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - PSLV-?? C? - JSSTU JNANAM (Student Sat) 🇮🇳
  • 2026 - PSLV C? - TRISHNA (Thermanl Infrared Imaging Satellite for High Resolution Natrural Resource Assessment) 🇮🇳/🇫🇷
  • 2026-27 - GSLV F?? x 3 - NVS-03, 4 & 5 (further satellites of second generation NAVIC) 🇮🇳
  • 2025 - SSLV S? x ? no. of flights - PARIKSHIT, Azista60°, Optimus Blacksky global and other commercial/NSIL payloads. 🇮🇳/🇦🇺/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - Vikram series & Agnibaan series - Unknown number of flights and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - LVM3 M? x ? no. of flights - GSAT-21, 22, new NSIL communication satellite and commercial payloads 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
  • 2025-26 - PSLV/LVM3 C?/M? - SPADEX -2 x ??, second SPADEX mission, India's first elliptical Orbital docking mission to demonstrate docking technology for Cdy-4 Moon soil sample return mission. 🇮🇳
  • 2026-28 - HLVM3 G4 - Unknown docking spacecraft name, India's first cargo supply mission to International Space Station. 🇮🇳/🇺🇳
Beyond 2026 and ambiguous schedules
  • NET 2027 - HLVM3 H2 - Gaganyaan-5, India's second manned space mission.🇮🇳
  • NET 2028 - HLVM3 G5/B1 - BAS-B1, first module of Indian Orbital Station aka Bharatiya Antariskha Station.🇮🇳
  • No later than 29 March 2028 - LVM3 M? - Venus Orbiter Mission aka Shukryaan-1, first Indian mission to Venus, may or may not include lander 🇮🇳
  • 2028 - LVM3 M? & M? (2 launchers at same time) - Chandryaan-4, India's first sample return mission to Moon. Orbiters, landers and ascenders with no rovers. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 - H3 🇯🇵 (Japanese rocket) - Chandryaan-5 aka LUPEX or Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (Indo-Japanese lunar lander, rover and drilling mission) 🇮🇳/🇯🇵
  • 2028-35 - HLVM3 B2+ + NGLV rockets - BAS-B2+, follow on modules and assembly of Indian Orbital Station. 🇮🇳
  • NET 2031 - NGLV - ISS or BAS cargo payload, first flight of India's NGLV rocket. 🇮🇳
  • 2030 or later - LVM3/NGLV - ? x no. of flights - Indian Mars (IAD mechanism & Indian Mars Helicopter??) and Venus Landing Missions 🇮🇳
  • NET 2026 - RLV ORV - Unknown payload, first flight of GSLV based reusable launch system.
  • 2027-2034 - LVM3/NGLV - Technology demonstration mission series for manned moon landings 🇮🇳
Missions with no further specific timelines or no updates anymore or long term goals
  • Astrosat-2
  • Completion of BAS and further cargo missions: 2035+
  • Chandrayaan-6 & 7 (RTEG based advanced sample return or long duration rover operation missions) - 2030s
  • Pratush (India's moon based telescope) - 2027-34
  • India's Lunar Relay and Navigation satellite constellation - 2029-32
  • Crewed Lunar Orbital Mission (India's circumlunar manned spaceflight missions) - 2035+
  • Unmanned Human Lunar Lander and Return Missions x 2 nos; each on two launchers: 2037-38
  • Indian Human Soft Landing on Moon (using two launch vehicles): 2040
  • Development of Bharatiya Chandrama Antariksha Station & further cargo missions (Indian Lunar Orbital Station) - 2040+
  • Indian habitats and sustainable presence on Moon's surface and orbit - 2045+
  • GSAT-7B, 7C, 7R.
  • GSAT-32
  • Resourcesat-3A & 3B.
  • HRSAT
  • Cartosat-3B
  • DISHA x 2 (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes)
  • AHySiS (Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)
  • Indian mission to Jupiter+Venus Fly by - 2030s
  • Indian missions to outerplanets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune), their satellites - In study
  • Indian Asteroid Landing Mission - Concept
  • INSIST, ExWorlds and other large space based telescopes
 
^^^
It looked really certain that there would a commsat launch by GSLV Mk 3, in the next few months( gsat 20,21 ) now that seems really pushed back. But good that the ISRO chairman is very determined on Gaganyaan G1 uncrewed going up by year end. Stick to it!
 
Also, wasn't there supposed to be a Gaganyaan development test vehicle ( for safety checking) launching any day now? TDV-02?
 
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