India will be the fourth nation apart from US, the former USSR and China to reach the moon.
Muthayya Vanitha will be the first women project director of Isro; Ritu Karidhal, mission director, holds a Master's in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
India will be the first country to explore the Lunar South Pole
Cost of Chandrayaan-2 mission is Rs 978 crore, including Rs 603 crore for the orbiter, lander, rover, navigation and ground support network and Rs 375 crore for Geo-stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle
India's second mission to the moon to be the first mission to land on the lunar south pole
Antrix Ltd is another PSU under the Department of Space that acts as an commercial arm of the ISRO
What will a space station mean to India and is it worth spending vast sums of money on it?
Isro said the space station would be a small module and underlined that there were no commercial plans for tourism purposes
The PSLV-C46 is the 14th flight of PSLV in 'core-alone' configuration, the statement said
PSLV-C45 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota carrying EMISAT and 28 customer satellites on board
The four-stage PSLV-C45 will blast off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota
ISRO also said the GSAT-31 will be used for supporting VSAT networks, television uplinks, digital satellite news gathering, DTH television services, cellular back haul connectivity etc
PSLV-C44 is the first mission of PSLV-DL and is a new variant of the PSLV
Isro's recent announcements suggest it wants to secure a competitive advantage as quickly as possible in all segments of the launch services market: light, medium and heavy
India also has an ambitious mission, Chandrayaan-2, to land on Moon's South Pole, a region unexplored by any country so far, Sivan said.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan said the Indian Air Force and other agencies will play a major role during the selection of astronauts for the human space mission project
To execute the project in a time bound manner, a short, medium and long-term plan has been proposed for implementation in five years in close coordination with the ISRO and the Defence Ministry
The fourth stage of the launch vehicle will be moved to a higher circular orbit so as to establish an orbital platform for carrying out experiments
At a time when the country is giving rise to cutting edge technology start-ups, chairman K Sivan said Isro is open to collaborating for space missions including Gaganyaan
Gearing up for the mission, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Isro has set up a new centre to facilitate the manned voyage involving a three-member crew