The announcement comes a day after Union minister Jitendra Singh said India will launch Chandrayaan-3 in 2020. Work on both Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan, the country's maiden manned space mission, was going on simultaneously, he added. Noting that Chandrayaan-2 orbiter's mission life was seven years, he said it would be used for the third lunar mission as well. India has signed agreements with Russia and France for cooperation on the Gaganyaan mission. The ambitious Gaganyaan mission was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech in 2018.

Source: The Telegraph January 01, 2020 11:26 UTC