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India will launch Chandrayaan-4 mission in 2027, will bring rock samples from the lunar surface to Earth

  Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh has said that India will launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission in the year 2027, which aims to collect rock samples from the lunar surface and bring them back to Earth. Under the Chandrayaan-4 mission, two separate launches will be made, in which five instruments of the mission will be sent through the Very Large Vehicle (LVM-3). They will be connected to each other in space. Singh said in an interview, the aim of the Chandrayaan-mission is to collect samples from the lunar surface and take them to Earth. Apart from this, Gaganyaan will be sent into space next year. Under the mission, Indian astronauts will be sent to low Earth orbit and brought back to Earth safely.

He said that in 2026, India will launch Samudrayan to explore the ocean floor, in which three scientists will be sent to a depth of 6000 meters in a special submarine. This achievement will be on the lines of other major missions of India and will be another important step in the country's journey towards scientific excellence. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mentioned the Samudrayan mission in his Independence Day speech. The Samudrayan mission will help in finding important minerals, rare earth metals and unknown marine biodiversity and will prove to be important for the country's economic growth and environmental sustainability. Under the Gaganyaan mission, the robot 'Vyommitra' will be sent into space this year. The Minister said that ISRO was established in 1969, but it took more than two decades to establish the first launch site in 1993. The second launch site was established in 2004. This too has been a decade apart. In the last 10 years, India has made remarkable progress in the field of space. Singh said that we are now building a third launch site. We are expanding beyond Sriharikota by building a new launch site in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu to launch Indian rockets and small satellites.
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