ISRO is developing and testing life support and escape systems, engines, and special parachutes for India's maiden human spaceflight mission. The test flight is likely in July 2025.
Training footage released by ISRO reveals aspects of survival training, parabolic weightlessness, extreme g-force simulation, psychological tests, and more.
Captain Prasanth Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla are undergoing training for India's maiden human space flight.
PM bestowed 'astronaut wings' to Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Prathap, Ajit Krishnan, and Shubhanshu Shukla at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) this morning.
Test flight at Sriharikota to last just over 8 minutes. It will check deceleration systems, parachute deployment, and structural integrity of crew module after separation from spacecraft.
PM Narendra Modi Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting to assess Gaganyaan mission's readiness. 1st demonstration flight of 'Crew Escape System Test Vehicle' scheduled on 21 October.
ISRO chief S. Somanath details the agency’s planned missions, declines to comment on Chandrayaan-3, whose lander and rover were put to sleep when first lunar night set in.
Chandrayaan-3 launch vehicle LVM3 is equipped with human-rated engines. Once all its components are human-rated, it will be called 'human-rated LVM3' or HVLM3 — the Gaganyaan launch vehicle.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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