Artificial intelligence will start ruling many things, says ISRO chief S Somanath
ALSO READ: Bharatiya Antariksha Station by 2030, presence on Moon by 2040: Somnath reveals ISRO goals at Gujarat Space Conference Reflecting on the recent successes and the guidance provided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Somanath said the prime minister has always been a fervent advocate for the space endeavours of India. "Let me look at the type of vision that the prime minister has given after this success story of the last six months.
I think he also has been an ardent supporter of space programmes ever since he was the CM of this state... What he told us is that we must create continuous activity of humans' presence in space," the ISRO chief said at the International Space Conference 2024 in Gandhinagar.
“Though we have a Gaganyaan programme, it must continue over a long period leading up to a human landing on the moon and an Indian landing on the moon by 2040. It looks far away, but it's not far away.
It's so close. And we must build a space station by 2035, a space station that is accessible for Indians to go there and do research...," he added.
His speech arrived on the heels of a series of successful missions and announcements by ISRO, including the launch of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft to study the Sun from the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1) and the X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) to analyse cosmic X-rays. With agency inputs.Milestone Alert!
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