Indian space agency

ISRO’s second mission to the moon – Chandrayaan-2 is expected to launch later this year in October. It is primarily set to discover information about Helium 3 deposits.

Till his last days, he served as the Chairman of the governing council of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad and the Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Science and Technology in Thiruvananthapuram.

With India’s energy bills predicted to cost up to $300 billion by 2030, ISRO is prioritizing the lunar mining mission as a source of generating alternative energy.

ISRO is all set to launch five British satellites on July 10 which together weigh around 1,440 kg. This will be the heaviest commercial luggage carried by the PSLV rocket till date.