Gaganyaan abort mission this year: Solar,Lunar missions in 2023

ISRO has set new deadlines for major missions, with its 'first solar mission' and 'third lunar mission' set to take place in the first quarter of next year.The third scientific mission scheduled for next year is the space observatory, 'XpoSat', designed to study cosmic x-rays. The 'Gaganyaan Mission' is scheduled for later this year.

ISRO would also carry out a 'space docking experiment' in the third quarter of 2024. 'Space docking' is a process of joining two separately launched spacecraft, and is mainly used for setting up modular space stations.

The first milestone for the Gaganyaan mission will be undertaken in the last quarter of 2022 - it will be the first 'abort demonstration mission'. The abort missions are meant to test the systems that can help the crew escape from the spacecraft mid-flight in case of a failure.

The XpoSat will be India's second astronomical observatory in space after the Astrosat. It will help in studying cosmic x-rays.

The Chandrayaan-3 will be a lander-rover mission that aims for a soft landing on the Moon that was planned for the second lunar mission. The lander-rover will use the existing orbiter around the Moon from Chandrayaan-2 to communicate with Earth.