New Delhi is compet­ing for a greate­r share of satell­ite market with its low-cost space progra­mmeNEW DEHLI: India will send its first manned mission into space by December 2021, the head of the country’s space agency said on Friday. “We are planning to have the first unmanned mission by December 2020, the second by July 2021, and the manned mission by December 2021,” Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan said in Bangalore. The sum would make it one of the cheapest manned space programmes in the world. India has already invested heavily in its space programme in the past decade. India to send manned mission to space by 2022: ModiIt sent an orbiter to Mars in 2013 which is still operational and last year launched a record 104 satellites in one blast-off.

Source: The Express Tribune January 11, 2019 12:44 UTC