ISRO Shukrayaan I mission to planet Venus reportedly shifted to 2031

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In the budget year 20222023, ISRO was given an allocation of 13,700 crores, a small increase from the previous year. Gaganyaan, the human spaceflight mission, received

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the majority of it. Various groups have created a wishlist ahead of the upcoming budget announcement and in response to recent reforms in the private spaceflight sector, which include increases in local manufacturing and procurement.

TheVERITAS and EnVision missionsof the American and European space agencies, respectively, both have Venus missions scheduled for 2031, but China might go anytime: 2026, 2027, whenever they want to go.

The pandemic was mentioned by ISRO as the reason for delaying Shukrayaan Is launch from mid-2023 to December 2024. Delays in manufacturing and obligations to commercial launch Services have also had an impact on other ISRO projects, such as Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan III.

Shukrayaan-I will be a mission for an orbiter. A high-resolution synthetic aperture radar and a ground-penetrating radar are two of its current scientific payloads. From an elliptical orbit, the mission will likely research Venuss geological and volcanic activities, emissions on the surface, wind speed, cloud cover, and other planetary features.