Currently, there is only one fully-functional space station in the Earth’s lower orbit, the International Space Station (ISS), and astronauts conduct different experiments in it
Current Affairs:-Famous space researcher G Madhavan Nair on Friday portrayed the ISRO’s proposed space station as the “most-energizing” venture and said it would enable India to keep up initiative position in space station.
The previous Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) executive said he was truly energized by India’s arrangements to have its own space station.
Alluding to the ISRO’s Gaganyaan mission, Nair, a previous Department of Space secretary, noticed that India would have the ability to take man to space by 2022.
“From that point (after the Gaganyaan venture), to set up a space-borne stage (space station) for perceptions is a sensible following stage,” he told PTI.
“Regularly, such real undertakings set aside effort, to imagine, plan, feel free to execute,” Nair said. “In this way, if the administration has given a note to such a venture, I believe it’s the most energizing similarly as ISRO is concerned.”
ISRO Chairman K Sivan had declared on Thursday that the proposed space station would weigh around 20 tons.
A space station is a shuttle fit for supporting group individuals, intended to stay in space for an all-inclusive timeframe and for other rocket to dock.
As of now, there is only one completely practical space station in the Earth’s lower circle, the International Space Station (ISS), and space travelers direct various investigations in it.
The ISS is an organization between European nations spoken to by the European Space Agency, the United States (NASA), Japan (JAXA), Canada (CSA) and Russia (Roscosmos). It is the world’s biggest global helpful program in science and innovation.
Nair said the ISRO, which he headed from 2003-2009, needed to “scale” the proposed space station according to necessities, which would develop in the 2025-2030 time allotment.
As indicated by him, around $120 billion had been spent on building up the ISS, which is being kept up at an expense of $6-7 billion every year.
Aditi Mehta 