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ISRO Unveils Concept for 40-Storey Rocket Targeting 75-Tonne LEO Payload

The concept underscores ISRO’s push to lift larger payloads, supporting plans to rapidly expand the satellite fleet.

ISRO's space expansion: India will triple number of satellites within next 4 years
Narayanan said right now, India has 55 satellites in orbit and the number is going to be increased to three times in another three to four years.
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  • ISRO chairman V. Narayanan said the agency is conceiving a super‑heavy launcher about the height of a 40‑storey building to place roughly 75,000 kg into low Earth orbit.
  • He outlined near‑term work that includes a NAVIC satellite, the new N1 rocket, Technology Demonstration Satellite and GSAT‑7R, plus launching a 6,500 kg U.S. communications satellite on an Indian rocket.
  • India has 55 operational satellites, and ISRO intends to increase the number to about three times that total over the next three to four years.
  • Narayanan said plans call for an Indian space station by 2035 with initial modules targeted from 2027, along with an approved Venus orbiter and a next‑generation heavy‑lift vehicle with a recoverable first stage.
  • He added that Gaganyaan’s first uncrewed mission is planned very shortly and credited ISRO with detecting and helping fix a rocket leak at Kennedy Space Center that safeguarded a recent ISS mission by an Indian astronaut.