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Title: India Plans To Build a Moon-Orbiting Space Station By 2040

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/0...

India plans to build a moon-orbiting space station by 2040 that will support
crewed missions to the moon and serve as a hub for scientific research. Space
Magazine reports: If all goes according to plan, the lunar space station will
be completed around the same time the nation's astronauts land on the moon,
with construction of a permanent base on the surface before 2050. The lunar
space station appears to be the third and final phase of India's moon
exploration efforts. [...] The lunar space station may be similar to the one
India plans to build in Earth orbit, known as the Bharatiya Antariksh
Station, or BAS. The development of this station's first module, BAS-1, was
greenlit by the Indian government in September. Officials have said the first
module will be launched to low Earth orbit by 2028, and the entire station
will be operational by 2035.

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