Isro to go to Venus by 2023 after Mars success, human spaceflight plans

Venus is often described as the 'twin sister' of Earth because of the similarities in size, mass, density, bulk composition and gravity

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is working towards a mission to study Venus, with plans to conduct it in 2023.  

Apart from Venus, the other major missions Isro is working on are a return visit to Mars and a spacecraft to study asteroids and the Sun. Isro is working on these missions to build a body of scientific data to encourage more people to take up research. 

So far, the space agency has launched the Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon and the Mangalyaan-1 mission to Mars, besides placing an observatory in space with Astrosat. The Gaganyan mission, India's maiden human