Isro is going to ask private players to assemble small rockets right away, says the senior executive vice-president of L&T's defence segment
Chandrayaan-2 mission: Filling of Liquid Oxygen in cryogenic stage(C25) of GSLV MkIII-M1 Completed. Catch LIVE update's on India's mission to the moon
A space museum named after former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam will also be a part of the infrastructure
On July 15, less than an hour before its 2:51 am scheduled take-off, the launch of Chandrayaan-2 had to be postponed due to a snag in its most powerful rocket
Narayanan's comments came even as the ISRO was yet to make any formal announcement on what went wrong during the final hour of countdown
Take a look at India's moon mission journey from the launch of Chandrayaan-1 to Chandrayaan-2
The launch was scheduled to have taken place at 2.51 am from the second launchpad at Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Centre
The mission director said it was not possible to carry out the launch within the timeframe; new schedule would be announced after investigation of the glitch, which should take at least 10 days
India will be the fourth nation apart from US, the former USSR and China to reach the moon.
Muthayya Vanitha will be the first women project director of Isro; Ritu Karidhal, mission director, holds a Master's in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
India will be the first country to explore the Lunar South Pole
Cost of Chandrayaan-2 mission is Rs 978 crore, including Rs 603 crore for the orbiter, lander, rover, navigation and ground support network and Rs 375 crore for Geo-stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle
India's second mission to the moon to be the first mission to land on the lunar south pole
Antrix Ltd is another PSU under the Department of Space that acts as an commercial arm of the ISRO
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Isro said the space station would be a small module and underlined that there were no commercial plans for tourism purposes
The PSLV-C46 is the 14th flight of PSLV in 'core-alone' configuration, the statement said
PSLV-C45 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota carrying EMISAT and 28 customer satellites on board
The four-stage PSLV-C45 will blast off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota
ISRO also said the GSAT-31 will be used for supporting VSAT networks, television uplinks, digital satellite news gathering, DTH television services, cellular back haul connectivity etc