ISRO Plans Nine More Space Missions Before 31 March 2026

Dr. V. Narayanan, Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that there will be nine more space missions before this financial year ends in March 2026. He announced the upcoming missions after the successful orbiting of the NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite.

The $1.5 billion satellite, built jointly by NASA  and ISRO was orbited by an Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F16  (GSLV-F16) on Wednesday evening.

Speaking at the Mission Control Centre at the Sriharikota rocket port in India after orbiting NISAR, Narayanan said one more US satellite Block 2 BlueBird will be taken to the space by India’s LVM3 rocket. The Block 2 BlueBird satellite belongs to the US based cellular broadband network player AST SpaceMobile.

Narayanan also said a user-funded satellite will be orbited by ISRO rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C62 (PSLV-C62). Earth observation satellite Oceansat will also be orbited by PSLV-C63 rocket.

According to him, the first industry consortium built PSLV rocket will also go up this fiscal year carrying a technology demonstrator satellite to try out 30 technologies including electric propulsion and others.

He said ISRO will also orbit a navigation satellite -NVS-03- with its rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F17 (GSLV-F17) and GISAT-2 with GSLV-F18. An Indian communication satellite CMS-02 with its heavy lift rocket LVM3 will also launch this fiscal year and there will be couple of missions with the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) rocket, Narayanan said.