Gaganyaan is India’s proposed first human flight mission that envisions sending a three-membered crew into an orbit of 400km for a period of three days and bringing them back to Earth.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday shared the onboard video of the Gaganyaan TV-D1 test vehicle that the Indian space agency launched successfully on Saturday.
The prime minister said that the successful launch of Test Vehicle Development Flight 1 has taken India a step closure to its first human space flight program
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told during a review meeting earlier this week that the project is scheduled for up to 20 major tests, including three unmanned flights
ISRO and the Indian Navy join forces for the crucial Gaganyaan abort test, a milestone in India's human spaceflight mission.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Ahmedabad is set to play a pivotal role in India’s Gaganyaan mission, which…
The second orbital test flight will take the Gaganyaan crew capsule to a higher altitude and undergo a similar abort scenario to perfect the system.
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address in 2018, wherein he said that an Indian astronaut, be it a man or a woman, will go on a space odyssey by 2022 onboard ‘Gaganyaan’, the minister said the programme got slightly delayed due to COVID restrictions, but preparations are now in full swing to achieve the mission by 2023.
Elaborating on the cabinet decision to encourage private participation in ISRO activities, Dr Jitendra Singh said, a regulatory body called “Indian National Space Promotion & Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe)” is to be established.
Last year Chandrayaan-II had crash landed on lunar surface.
