Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully executed the Test Flight Abort Mission, for the Gaganyaan mission on Saturday after the first test flight was aborted at 8:45 am due to a problem in the engine ignition. Earlier today, ISRO briefly aborted the launch of the first uncrewed test flight (TV-D1 […]
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ISRO successfully tests Gaganyaan Low Altitude Escape Motor
In another important milestone in the Gaganyaan project, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully carried out the test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of Crew Escape System, from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, said the officials on Wednesday. “The Crew Escape System (CES) takes away the Crew module of the Gaganyaan […]
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Preparations for Gaganyaan completed, says Jitendra Singh, ‘Indian origin humans to travel to space next year’
Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh has said that the preparations for Gaganyaan, India’s maiden human space mission, are complete and humans of Indian origin will go to space next year. The Minister announced that the trials of the mission scheduled to take place […]
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Gaganyaan likely to be delayed by a year due to Covid-19
India’s first human space flight mission, Gaganyaan, is likely to be delayed by a year owing to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. “That (Ganganyaan mission) will be delayed because of Covid,” ISRO chairperson K Sivan told PTI. “We are targeting for some time next year-end or the subsequent year,” he said […]
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India’s first manned mission Gaganyaan may take 1 astronaut
Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief K Sivan detailed the country’s first manned mission to space on Tuesday, saying the four men shortlisted for the programme will receive physical fitness training in Russia for 11 months, but the first spaceflight in December 2021 may carry just one person. Under the […]