India's G20 Climate Satellite to Launch in 2027, ISRO Chairman Says

The G20 satellite, designed to study climate and air pollution and to monitor weather, is expected to launch in 2027, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman V. Narayanan has said, with India taking the lead role in the project on behalf of the G20 countries.

Speaking to scientists from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), ISRO and the Aeronautical Society of India at the Engineering Staff College of India in Hyderabad, Narayanan said India is the first country to have succeeded in placing more than 100 satellites into orbit using a single rocket without any collision.

He said ISRO is working towards sending a human to the Moon by 2040. If ISRO achieves this, Narayanan said, India will be on par with other spacefaring nations in launcher technology, satellite technology, application areas and its human spaceflight program.

Narayanan also said ISRO is in the process of making a 2.2-meter diameter, 100-millimeter-thick titanium vessel for Samudrayaan, a project under India's Deep Ocean Mission.