1. Home
  2. Current Affairs
  3. Current News
  4. Samudrayaan Mission

Samudrayaan Mission

  • 03 Jan 2023

In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on December 21, 2022, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh informed that Samudrayaan mission is expected to be realised by year 2026.

About Samudrayaan Mission

  • Samudrayaan is India’s first manned ocean mission launched with an aim to better understand ocean ecology by having niche technology and vehicles to carry out subsea activities.
    • Samudrayaan Mission aims to humans into the deep sea in a submersible vehicle for deep-ocean exploration and mining of rare minerals.
  • Samudrayaan Mission is a project of Ministry of Earth Sciences under its Deep Ocean Mission Project.
  • The projected timeline of Samudrayaan Mission is five years for the period 2020-2021 to 2025-2026.
  • Samudrayaan mission is aimed at sending three personnel to 6000-metre depth in a vehicle called ‘MATSYA 6000’ for the exploration of deep sea resources like minerals.
  • National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an autonomous institute under MoES, is entrusted with the responsibility to develop various technologies related to the Samudrayaan Mission.

MATSYA 6000

  • It is an indigenously developed manned submersible vehicle.
  • It will facilitate the MoES in conducting deep ocean exploration of resources such as gas hydrates, polymetallic manganese nodules, hydro-thermal sulfides, and cobalt crusts which are located at an approximate depth between 1000 and 5500 metres.
  • Polymetallic Nodules, also called manganese nodules, are mineral concretions on the sea bottom formed of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxides around a core.