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ISRO's maiden X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite would offer insights into celestial objects like black holes.
Four test pilots from the Indian Air Force have been selected as Astronaut-Designates for the mission.
He also said ISRO would send a female humanoid - a robot that resembles a human - in its unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft next year.
The Test Vehicle mission with this Crew Module is a significant milestone for the overall Gaganyaan programme as a nearly complete system is integrated for a flight test.
ISRO chairman S Somnath speaking on the topic 'India's Dream Space in Space' at the Manorama News Conclave 2023.
Modi's directions came during a briefing by ISRO Chairman S Somanath on the progress of the Gaganyaan mission, which is to have its first demonstration flight of the crew escape system on October 21.
Somanath was addressing students at an event organised by Dr A P J Abdul Kalam's Foundation, commemorating the 92nd birth anniversary.
This is the second time in succession that ISRO could send a spacecraft outside the sphere of influence of the Earth, the first time being the Mars Orbiter Mission.
NASA's first sample from the asteroid Bennu was parachuted into the Utah desert on Sunday.
The sensors of an instrument on board India's first solar observatory have begun measuring supra-thermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth, it said.