India approves development of reusable launcher, space station module

Enlarge / Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma and Virendra Sachdeva, two members of Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP party, celebrate the landing of India’s Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the Moon on August 23, 2023.Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

All at once, India’s government has approved plans to develop a new reusable rocket, the centerpiece of an Indian space station, and robotic sample return mission to the Moon, and a science probe to explore Venus.

“Great news for the space sector!” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X. Collectively, the projects authorized by India’s union cabinet will cost an estimated $2.7

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