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India’s Gaganyaan Mission Postponed to 2026 as ISRO Focuses on Safety, Testing, and Astronaut Training
India’s Gaganyaan mission, originally slated for 2025, is now expected to launch in 2026 as ISRO prioritises crew safety and thorough system testing. The revised schedule includes four uncrewed test flights, beginning with a December 2023 mission. These tests will validate technologies essential for safe manned space travel, including crew escape...
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India Targets 2028 for Chandrayaan-4 Sample Return Mission to Moon
India is planning its next lunar mission, Chandrayaan-4, with a targeted launch in 2028. The mission aims to collect approximately 3 kilograms of lunar samples from the moon's south pole, specifically from areas rich in water ice. Following Chandrayaan-4, ISRO will collaborate with Japan on Chandrayaan-5, furthering India's ambitions in space explo...
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Gaganyaan Scheduled for 2026, Chandrayaan-4 to Launch by 2028: ISRO
ISRO Chairman S Somanath has revealed exciting new timelines for India's space missions. The Gaganyaan mission, set to be India's first manned space flight, is now scheduled for a 2026 launch. Furthermore, the ambitious Chandrayaan-4 mission, aimed at returning lunar samples, is expected to lift off by 2028. With a focus on self-reliance and privat...
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China To Build Lunar Space Station, Explore Habitable Planets Under New Plan
China announced plans to launch a manned lunar mission, construct a lunar space station and explore habitable planets and extra-terrestrial life to expand its space programme in the next few decades.
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Woman Robot Astronaut Vyommitra To Simulate Human Functions In Space
India's woman robot astronaut Vyommitra will fly into space ahead of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ambitious Gaganyaan mission, the country's first manned space flight carrying Indian astronauts.
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ISRO Prefers Women Fighter Test Pilots For Manned Missions: Chief S Somanath
ISRO prefers women fighter test pilots or female scientists for its much-awaited human space flight programme, the Gaganyaan mission, and it is possible to send them in the future, the space agency chief S Somanath said on Sunday.
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ISRO to Conduct Key Test for Gaganyaan Space Mission in October
India is set to conduct a key test in its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan as early as next month, the project director of the mission R Hutton told Reuters. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently training four astronauts and looking to expand the cohort as it aims for more future manned missions, Hutton said.
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Solar Mission ‘Aditya’ Will Be Ready for Launch in September, Says ISRO Chief After Chandrayaan-3's Success
As the country rejoiced the successful placement of the ISRO lander — Vikram — on the moon's uncharted South Pole, the agency's chairman S Somanath on Thursday confirmed that its maiden solar mission 'Aditya' is in the works and will be ready for launch in September.
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ISRO Decided Not to Rush Its Gaganyaan Project to Space, Says Chairman S Somanath
Indian Space Research Organisation has decided not to rush its Gaganyaan project, the manned mission to space, as it wants to ensure that the country's first human space flight is a 'sure shot safe mission', said its chairman S Somanath here on Thursday. Gaganyaan was set to launch in 2022 but due to COVID-19 there was an inordinate delay, Somanath...
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China's Big News: Astronauts Leave Tuesday For 6 Months In Space
China will be sending a three-person crew to its space station, which is nearing completion, and also announced today plans for a manned mission to the Moon amid intensifying competition with the US.
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ISRO Says Gaganyaan Mission Will Finally Take Off in 2023 After COVID-19 Delay
India will launch its much-awaited human spaceflight mission in 2023, Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Named Gaganyaan, the first human space mission to launch from Indian soil was initially set for August 2022, to mark 75 years of India's independence but the coronavirus-induced pandemic forced a delay in its timeline.
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ISRO Holds Hot Test Of Liquid Propellant Vikas Engine For "Gaganyaan"
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully conducted the third long-duration hot test of the liquid propellant Vikas engine for the Gaganyaan programme, the country's first manned mission to space.
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Astronauts For India's Gaganyaan Mission Complete Training In Russia
Indian officers, selected to become astronauts to crew the Gaganyaan into orbit, have completed their one-year training course in Russia's Zvyozdny gorodok city near Moscow.
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Unmanned Gaganyaan Launch In December 2021: Nirmala Sitharaman
India's unmanned space flight will take place in December this year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today during her annual budget speech. This mission will be the first of two to be undertaken before the Indian Space Research Organisation launches its human spaceflight under the "Gaganyaan" umbrella. It was initially planned for December...
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Gaganyaan Manned Mission Space Suits Under Production in Russia
Russian research and development enterprise Zvezda has started manufacturing of space suits and personal flight equipment for Indian cosmonauts undergoing training in Russia to be part of India's first manned space mission Gaganyaan, Glavkosmos said on Monday.
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India’s Gaganyaan Mission Postponed to 2026 as ISRO Focuses on Safety, Testing, and Astronaut Training
India’s Gaganyaan mission, originally slated for 2025, is now expected to launch in 2026 as ISRO prioritises crew safety and thorough system testing. The revised schedule includes four uncrewed test flights, beginning with a December 2023 mission. These tests will validate technologies essential for safe manned space travel, including crew escape...
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India Targets 2028 for Chandrayaan-4 Sample Return Mission to Moon
India is planning its next lunar mission, Chandrayaan-4, with a targeted launch in 2028. The mission aims to collect approximately 3 kilograms of lunar samples from the moon's south pole, specifically from areas rich in water ice. Following Chandrayaan-4, ISRO will collaborate with Japan on Chandrayaan-5, furthering India's ambitions in space explo...
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Gaganyaan Scheduled for 2026, Chandrayaan-4 to Launch by 2028: ISRO
ISRO Chairman S Somanath has revealed exciting new timelines for India's space missions. The Gaganyaan mission, set to be India's first manned space flight, is now scheduled for a 2026 launch. Furthermore, the ambitious Chandrayaan-4 mission, aimed at returning lunar samples, is expected to lift off by 2028. With a focus on self-reliance and privat...
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China To Build Lunar Space Station, Explore Habitable Planets Under New Plan
China announced plans to launch a manned lunar mission, construct a lunar space station and explore habitable planets and extra-terrestrial life to expand its space programme in the next few decades.
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Woman Robot Astronaut Vyommitra To Simulate Human Functions In Space
India's woman robot astronaut Vyommitra will fly into space ahead of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ambitious Gaganyaan mission, the country's first manned space flight carrying Indian astronauts.
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ISRO Prefers Women Fighter Test Pilots For Manned Missions: Chief S Somanath
ISRO prefers women fighter test pilots or female scientists for its much-awaited human space flight programme, the Gaganyaan mission, and it is possible to send them in the future, the space agency chief S Somanath said on Sunday.
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ISRO to Conduct Key Test for Gaganyaan Space Mission in October
India is set to conduct a key test in its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan as early as next month, the project director of the mission R Hutton told Reuters. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently training four astronauts and looking to expand the cohort as it aims for more future manned missions, Hutton said.
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Solar Mission ‘Aditya’ Will Be Ready for Launch in September, Says ISRO Chief After Chandrayaan-3's Success
As the country rejoiced the successful placement of the ISRO lander — Vikram — on the moon's uncharted South Pole, the agency's chairman S Somanath on Thursday confirmed that its maiden solar mission 'Aditya' is in the works and will be ready for launch in September.
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ISRO Decided Not to Rush Its Gaganyaan Project to Space, Says Chairman S Somanath
Indian Space Research Organisation has decided not to rush its Gaganyaan project, the manned mission to space, as it wants to ensure that the country's first human space flight is a 'sure shot safe mission', said its chairman S Somanath here on Thursday. Gaganyaan was set to launch in 2022 but due to COVID-19 there was an inordinate delay, Somanath...
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China's Big News: Astronauts Leave Tuesday For 6 Months In Space
China will be sending a three-person crew to its space station, which is nearing completion, and also announced today plans for a manned mission to the Moon amid intensifying competition with the US.
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ISRO Says Gaganyaan Mission Will Finally Take Off in 2023 After COVID-19 Delay
India will launch its much-awaited human spaceflight mission in 2023, Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Named Gaganyaan, the first human space mission to launch from Indian soil was initially set for August 2022, to mark 75 years of India's independence but the coronavirus-induced pandemic forced a delay in its timeline.
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ISRO Holds Hot Test Of Liquid Propellant Vikas Engine For "Gaganyaan"
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully conducted the third long-duration hot test of the liquid propellant Vikas engine for the Gaganyaan programme, the country's first manned mission to space.
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Astronauts For India's Gaganyaan Mission Complete Training In Russia
Indian officers, selected to become astronauts to crew the Gaganyaan into orbit, have completed their one-year training course in Russia's Zvyozdny gorodok city near Moscow.
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Unmanned Gaganyaan Launch In December 2021: Nirmala Sitharaman
India's unmanned space flight will take place in December this year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today during her annual budget speech. This mission will be the first of two to be undertaken before the Indian Space Research Organisation launches its human spaceflight under the "Gaganyaan" umbrella. It was initially planned for December...
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Gaganyaan Manned Mission Space Suits Under Production in Russia
Russian research and development enterprise Zvezda has started manufacturing of space suits and personal flight equipment for Indian cosmonauts undergoing training in Russia to be part of India's first manned space mission Gaganyaan, Glavkosmos said on Monday.
