CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Another ISRO official said the new rocket would be helpful as India plans to have its own space station by 2035 and was also eyeing deep space missions, human space flights, cargo missions and putting multiple communication satellites into orbit at the same time.

Detailed explanation-2: -In fact, in January 2022, Indian Space Research Organisation too announced plans to send a space station by 2030 in furtherance of the Gaganyaan mission, the country’s first manned space mission.

Detailed explanation-3: -China is only the third country in history to have put both astronauts into space and to build a space station, after the Soviet Union (now Russia) and the US. China hopes Tiangong will replace the International Space Station (ISS), which is due to be decommissioned in 2031.

Detailed explanation-4: -China’s space station is nearing completion with its second lab module getting ready for launch and its next manned mission Shenzhou-15 scheduled before the year end.

Detailed explanation-5: -By the beginning of 2024, Russia will discontinue sending cosmonauts to the International Space Station in favour of building its own orbital station.