The Indian space agency ISRO is gearing up for its ambitious planetary exploration venture with the Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM). The proposed mission, aimed at studying the atmosphere, surface, subsurface, ionosphere, and solar interaction of Venus, seeks to enhance India’s deep space exploration efforts beyond the moon and Mars. Sanctioned by the Union Cabinet in ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has just announced the launch of the country’s first analog space mission to simulate life in an interplanetary habitat to tackle the challenges of a base station beyond Earth. The mission is meant to help ISRO understand the issues that future astronauts are likely to encounter on missions beyond ...