# ISRO sets target of seven launches this financial year 2026-08-05T23:18:49+00:00 | Health & Science | Indian Opinion Desk ISRO chairman V Narayanan said the agency is targeting seven launches this financial year, with the next liftoff due within two months, TheHinduBusinessLine reported from a press conference on 18 July. Two satellites are already built and five to six more are in final integration, he said, with the schedule also covering the first uncrewed flight under the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme. Narayanan spoke after Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 became the first privately built Indian rocket to reach orbit on its first attempt, crediting the young team, whose average age is 28, and noting that 2020 reforms opening the sector to private players took the country from one space startup to 400 today. He also said ISRO plans to commission a second launch complex at Kulasekarapattinam within six months to ease pressure on Sriharikota, since the existing site's large pads are not well suited to smaller satellites in the 300 to 350 kilogram range. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Every figure here, the two finished satellites, the five or six still in integration, and the jump from one startup to 400, is Narayanan's own tally from a single press conference, with nothing here to check it against. The seven launch target and the Kulasekarapattinam timeline are stated plans, not commitments already met, and Gaganyaan's uncrewed flight has no date beyond sitting somewhere in that same sequence. Two dates mark whether this holds together: a next launch inside two months of 18 July, and the second complex commissioned within six months of the same date. ## Coverage - TheHinduBusinessLine Tags: ISRO, V Narayanan Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/isro-targets-7-launches-this-fiscal-next-mission-within-two-months-says-chairman-narayanan/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/isro-targets-7-launches-this-fiscal-next-mission-within-two-months-says-chairman-narayanan/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.