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The Gaganyaan mission envisages demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching a crew of three members to an orbit of 400 km for a three-day mission and bringing them back safely to earth, by landing in Indian sea waters. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Separating the crew module from the service module involves multiple precisely…
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In the first episode of The Scope’s special series on Gaganyaan, we explore why India’s first human spaceflight mission is about much more than sending astronauts into orbit. Discover what Gaganyaan is, why human-rating a rocket is essential, how ISRO has prepared through years of testing, and why this mission could make India only the…
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the English novelist L.P. Hartley wrote famously in his 1953 novel The Go-Between. In a peculiar twist, the same cannot be said of the Moon. It is not a foreign country, or even a foreign world: the U.S.’s manoeuvring to beat China to the…
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the English novelist L.P. Hartley wrote famously in his 1953 novel The Go-Between. In a peculiar twist, the same cannot be said of the Moon. It is not a foreign country, or even a foreign world: the U.S.’s manoeuvring to beat China to the…
The crew module uprighting system. Photo: isro.gov.in The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday (July 12, 2026) said it had successfully carried out three major tests of the Gaganyaan crew module systems. The first test pertained to ensuring an upright position for the crew module after splashdown in the sea, considered one of the…
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The crew module uprighting system. Photo: isro.gov.in The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday (July 12, 2026) said it had successfully carried out three major tests of the Gaganyaan crew module systems. The first test pertained to ensuring an upright position for the crew module after splashdown in the sea, considered one of the…
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The crew module uprighting system. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday (July 12, 2026) said it had successfully carried out three major tests of the Gaganyaan crew module systems. The first test pertained to ensuring an upright position for the crew module after splashdown in the sea, considered one…
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ISRO successfully conducted the Second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) for Gaganyaan, India’s first human spaceflight mission, on April 15, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) replicates the earth’s atmosphere in earth orbit by managing air, water, temperature, and waste. In short-term space missions, all supplies are carried…
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NASA astronaut and Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover in the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 6, 2026. File | Photo Credit: via Reuters On April 10, the Orion crew capsule of the Artemis II mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego, at the end…
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Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters ISRO has lined up seven launch missions by March next year, including one to demonstrate home-built electric propulsion systems for satellite and quantum key distribution technologies, and the first uncrewed mission of the Gaganyaan project. The first of the seven launches is expected to take…
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