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First Module of India's Own Space Station Already Approved, ISRO Chief Says
V. Narayanan told the National Space Day gathering in Ahmedabad that work on the Bharatiya Antriksh Station is under way, with the station targeted for 2035.
India is at work on a space station of its own, and the first module of the Bharatiya Antriksh Station has already been approved, ISRO chairman V. Narayanan said. He was speaking at the third National Space Day celebration in Ahmedabad.
Narayanan said the aim is to have the station established by 2035. He described the day's theme as innovation, collaboration and an ambition towards global leadership in space.
He set the plan against the programme's age. India began its space effort 64 years ago, and today it serves ordinary citizens across more than 50 areas — among them earth observation, remote sensing, telecommunications, television broadcasting, distance education, disaster warning and mitigation, navigation, and real-time monitoring and tracking.
Several projects are lined up alongside the station, he said, including Gaganyaan, India's crewed spaceflight programme. Approval of the first phase means construction work on the station can proceed rather than remaining a proposal.
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