ISRO preparing to do another big feat in space, Central Government approves Chandrayaan-5 mission

New Delhi. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman V. Narayanan has given great news. He said on Sunday that the Central Government has recently approved the ambitious ‘Chandrayaan-5 Mission’ to study the Moon. A ceremony was organized to honor him on taking over as the chairman of the Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organization. In this, Narayanan said that under the ‘Chandrayaan-5 Mission’, a 250 kg rover will be sent to study the surface of the moon, whereas in the Chandrayaan-3 mission, a 25 kg rover Pragyan was carried.

The objective of the Chandrayaan mission is to study the surface of the moon. ISRO successfully launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission, whose lander Vikram successfully soft landed on the south pole of the Moon on August 23, 2023. Narayanan said, ‘Just three days ago we have got approval for Chandrayaan-5 mission. We will do it in collaboration with Japan.’ The objective of the Chandrayaan-4 mission is to bring samples collected from the Moon. It is likely that Chandrayaan-4 will be launched in the year 2027.

32-bit microprocessor developed
On the other hand, ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Center and Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) have jointly developed 32-bit microprocessors (Vikram 3201 and Kalpana 3201) for space experiments. The Indian space agency gave this information. Vikram 3201 is the first fully made in India 32-bit microprocessor qualified for use in the harsh environmental conditions of launch vehicles. The processor has been manufactured at SCL’s 180nm (nanometer) CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) semiconductor fab.

ISRO said in the statement that the processor is a variant of the indigenously designed 16-bit Vikram 1601 microprocessor, which has been serving in the avionics systems of ISRO’s launch vehicles since 2009. The ‘Make-in-India’ version of the Vikram 1601 processor was inducted in 2016 after developing advanced 180nm semiconductors at SCL.