"In second or third quarter of this year, will be going for uncrewed mission": LPSC Director after ISRO's GSLV-F15 success

Speaking to ANI, Mohan also highlighted that they are also preparing for the Chandrayan missions for which the approval has already come.

"The LPSC is a power source for the engine which is propelling the entire rocket of all the launch vehicles of ISRO, now, especially the PSLV second stage and fourth stage, GSLV 4 L40 stages, strap on stages G second stage and the cryogenic stage. Also in all the satellites, we are supporting the propulsion system. Chemical propulsion systems are also supported by the LPSC team," he said.

"This year, we have 6-7 satellite programmes and also an equivalent number of launch vehicle programmes of GSLV, PSLV including the first Gaganyaan uncrewed mission before the end of this year. Hopefully, in the second quarter or third quarter of this year, we will be going for the uncrewed mission and it will be followed by the Gaganyaan further follow-up missions. We are also continuing preparations for Chandrayan missions which the approval has already come," the LPSC Director told ANI.

Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) is the lead Centre for the development and realization of earth-to-orbit advanced propulsion stages for Launch Vehicles and also the in-space propulsion systems for Spacecrafts. The LPSC activities and facilities are spread across its two campuses viz., LPSC Headquarters and Design Offices at Valiamala/Thiruvananthapuram, and Spacecraft Propulsion Systems Activities at LPSC, Bengaluru/Karnataka.

Meanwhile, ISRO successfully launched their GSLV-F15 carrying the NVS-02 at 6:23 AM at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. This is ISRO's 100th launch from the country's spaceport.

GSLV-F15 is the 17th flight of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) and the 11th flight with the Indigenous Cryo stage. It is the 8th operational flight of GSLV with an indigenous Cryogenic stage. GSLV-F15 payload fairing is a metallic version with a diameter of 3.4 meters.

Speaking on the success, Mission Director Thomas Kurian said, "If you look at GSLV, its total number of missions was only 17 but later in, it became the candidate for the 100th mission of ISRO. Since it is a centennial mission, a lot of pressure will be there, but perfectionism is in whatever we have incorporated in the vehicle...The attained orbit is very very precise. Only 0.2% of error chances are there for the 37,000 km orbit." (ANI)