ISRO Future Space Missions: What the Future of Space Travel for India Holds

India's Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to be launching a series of ambitious space missions over the next few years, confirming India's place among the foremost global space explorers. The success of previous missions like Chandrayaan-3, in which India became the first nation to land on the south pole of the Moon, and GSLV F-15 rocket launch, ISRO's 100th mission, has the space agency ready to launch a number of mission-critical ones.

Since its establishment in 1969, ISRO has carried out 130 spacecraft missions, 100 launch missions, and helped launch 433 foreign satellites. It has also helped 18 student and private player satellite development. With a focus on the development of space technology and scientific research, ISRO has planned a series of future missions targeting lunar exploration, planetary exploration, human space flight, and satellite technology.

ISRO's future projects are an indicator of its increasing aspirations in space exploration. Space agency in 2024 will send into space Gaganyaan 1, the first test flight of the Gaganyaan spacecraft, with rendezvous and docking. The other major mission in 2024 is NISAR, which is a collaborative mission with NASA, and it will be the world's first dual-frequency radar imaging satellite for remote sensing. Entering 2025, ISRO will carry out the second test flight of Gaganyaan, and the Venus Orbiter Mission (Shukrayaan) to research the atmosphere of the planet.

India will take another step towards interplanetary exploration in 2026 with its second mission, Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (Mangalyaan 2), to the planet Mars. In 2026 itself, ISRO, in collaboration with Japan's JAXA, shall also launch the Lunar Polar Exploration Mission to the Moon's south pole area of exploration. India's first crewed space flight, much-awaited Gaganyaan 3, is planned in 2026 as well and shall be a historic milestone in human space flight.

ISRO will launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission, a sample-return lunar mission as part of the Chandrayaan program, by 2028. India will also build its own Bharatiya Antariksha Station, a space station that can keep astronauts alive for 15–20 days at an altitude of 400 km, which will be operational between 2028 and 2035. ISRO is also working on AstroSat-2 in the future, a next-generation space-based observatory that will improve the success of AstroSat-1 to facilitate more astronomical research.

By conducting these missions, ISRO will be creating a niche for itself as a front runner in space exploration, setting new frontiers in human spaceflight, planetary science, and space-based technology development.

These future missions represent a new dawn for Indian space exploration with the country failing to achieve scientific development, achievements in human spaceflight, and interplanetary missions. While having partners like NASA and JAXA of foreign space agencies, ISRO continues to remain the leader of world space agencies and research development.