Chandrayaan-3 done, ISRO chief announces special Venus mission; check out Shukrayaan

After the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, ISRO Chief S. Somanath has announced the Venus mission dubbed Shukrayaan. Check details about this new mission.

Recently, ISRO conducted two major missions, Chandrayaan-3, which made its successful landing on the Moon's surface in the form of Pragyan Rover and Vikram Lander, and Aditya-L1 mission, which is now moving towards Sun’s orbit.

After two major missions and one successful mission, ISRO Chief S. Somanath has revealed a new mission that will target the planet Venus.

The Venus mission is being called “Shukrayaan” in which “Shukra” refers to the planet Venus and “Yaan” denotes the spacecraft.

According to reports, payloads for the Venus mission have already been developed and it will be launched in the coming years.

S. Somanath said, “Venus is a very interesting planet. It also has an atmosphere. Its atmosphere is so thick you cannot penetrate the surface. You don't know if its surface is hard or not."

The Venus mission is focused on studying the planet’s surface and atmosphere which is packed with various acids.

As per reports, ISRO’s  Venus Mission will be similar to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) mission which is planned for 2030s.

ISRO Chief also added that studying Venus will provide details about the future of our planet as billions of years ago, Earth too was not habitable.

The details regarding the objectives of the Venus Mission are yet to be released by ISRO. The launch date of the Shukrayaan mission has also not been announced yet.

It is astonishing to see the rate at which ISRO is rolling out extremely complex missions and achieving big success with them.