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.
A bad turn in Venezuela would raise the same questions that have dogged the unlawful US strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean: Why now, and why at all?
The latest comment comes as New Delhi and Washington have yet to sign a trade agreement. India’s purchase of Russian oil has reduced, but Moscow remains top source for crude.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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