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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scheduled six PSLV missions, three GSLV launches, and one commercial Launch Vehicle Mark-3 mission for 2024, said the government in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

ISRO will also launch a technological demonstration satellite on the third development flight of its newest launch vehicle, SSLV, said Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question.

He also mentioned the space agency's plans to undertake two unmanned missions as a part of the Gaganyaan program to verify the orbital module and the human-rated launch vehicle in actual flight.

The minister further said that multiple sub-orbital missions using a test vehicle are also planned to validate the Gaganyaan Crew Escape System under various abort conditions.

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The space agency has also scheduled two autonomous runway landing experiments of winged body Reusable Launch Vehicle and put in orbit the GSAT 20 communication satellite through a procured launch under a commercial contract by NewSpace India Limited (NSIL).

A space science satellite, an Earth observation satellite, two technological demonstration missions, and two commercial missions by NSIL will all be launched by the six PSLV missions.

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The three GSLV missions are to launch a meteorology satellite, a Navigation satellite and a joint NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, while the LVM3 launch is a commercial mission by the NSIL.

Meanwhile, in another unique experiment, like the hop experiment on the Vikram Lander, the Propulsion Module (PM) of Chandrayaan-3 was moved from an orbit around the Moon to an orbit around Earth, said ISRO on December 5.

The primary objective of Chandrayaan-3 mission was to demonstrate a soft landing near the lunar south polar region and perform experiments using the instruments on Vikram and Pragyaan. The spacecraft was launched on July 14, 2023 on-board LVM3-M4 vehicle from SDSC, SHAR.

(With inputs from agency)