posted 02-14-2014 10:35 PM               

Please use this thread for comments and questions about India's Gaganyaan human spaceflight program, the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) development program for a domestic crewed launch capability.

posted 11-07-2006 10:12 PM               

India's state-run space agency approved its first indigenous manned mission into space on Tuesday, aiming to put an astronaut outside the earth's atmosphere by 2014.

The approval came after top Indian scientists met in the southern technology hub of Bangalore to discuss the viability of the mission.

"They were unanimous in suggesting that the time is appropriate for India to undertake a manned mission," a statement from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said.

posted 03-26-2008 09:13 AM               

"India would like to have one of its astronauts trained in Russia and send him into space on board the Soyuz spacecraft," said a senior researcher from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

He said ISRO had been in talks on the issue with the Russian Federal Space Agency and "received a positive response."

posted 02-11-2009 08:52 AM               

In its maiden manned mission, ISRO's largely autonomous 3-ton capsule will orbit the Earth at 248 miles (400 km) in altitude for up to seven days with a two-person crew on board, ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair announced Jan. 3 at the Indian Science Congress held in Shillong. The capsule will be designed to carry three people, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with a rendezvous and docking capability, he said.

...[ISRO spokesman] Satish said the astronaut capsule would launch atop a modified version of ISRO's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark 2, currently under development. The GSLV Mark 2 features an indigenously developed cryogenic upper-stage engine; the Mark 1 variant currently in use has a Russian-supplied upper stage engine. The first test launch of the standard GSLV Mark 2 launcher is scheduled for this year.

Satish said ISRO's human spaceflight program will benefit from assistance provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roskosmos. The cooperative arrangement was sealed in an accord signed Dec. 5 by Nair and Roskosmos Director-General Anatoly Perminov during a state visit to India by Russian President Dimitri Medvedev.

Under the accord, an Indian cosmonaut will fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2013 ahead of ISRO's planned 2015 mission, Satish said.

posted 02-12-2009 07:33 AM               

1. Select an initial group of astronaut candidates
   
2. Provide initial training
   
3. Select two (?) candidates for the Soyuz flight to train in Russia from 2012
   
4. Soyuz flight in 2013

posted 02-15-2014 03:15 PM               

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has handed over the first "Crew Module Structural Assembly" for the "Human Spaceflight Program" to Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram of ISRO in Bangalore, recently.

posted 02-15-2014 03:25 PM               

The first Crew Module will be further equipped with systems necessary for crew support, navigation, guidance and control systems by ISRO for experimentation in the forthcoming GSLV-MK3 launch.

NDTV reports it will be a suborbital flight, with no passengers.

In its first test flight no crew or any animals are likely to be flown.

"Only re-entry technologies and flight dynamics will be tested and the capsule will be recovered 400-500 kilometers away from Port Blair in the Bay of Bengal," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Radhakrishnan told NDTV.

posted 07-01-2022 09:03 AM               

The ISRO chief emphasised that various demonstrations would be taken up and an unmanned mission in the middle of next year and make sure everything is fine. "(Gaganyaan) cannot happen this year or next year. This is for the safety of our folks."

"We need to remove the worry part – any time it can burst. Worry can be removed only by ruggadising the object, testing it more number of times and introducing intelligence in the rocket so that it can identify problems, let the aircraft know pilots can escape. But rockets cannot do that. Rockets are moving very fast and rockets themselves have to find out something is going bad now so let these fellows go away. It will automatically command an escape system and the astronauts can escape. This is new system currently what we are doing is let us wait for some more time."

"If we want to fly astronauts, we need to first prove the safety system.. it has to go through many tests. We are trying to do that this year. I don't want to end up doing the Gaganyaan programme with a disaster. We will want to do it very cautiously."

posted 02-26-2024 05:57 PM               

Four vyomanauts, under training for the maiden Indian human spaceflight mission, will be awarded the mission wing (logo).

Their names will also be revealed to the nation during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre on Feb. 27, 2024.

posted 02-27-2024 01:16 AM               

• Shubanshu Shukla
  
• Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair
  
• Angad Prathap
  
• Ajit Krishna

posted 02-27-2024 10:44 AM               

• Gp Capt Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair: He was born in Thiruvazhiyad, Kerala on 26 Aug 1976. He is alumnus of NDA and recipient of Sword of Honour at Air Force Academy. He was commissioned on 19 Dec 1998 in the fighter stream of IAF.

  He is a Cat A Flying Instructor and a Test Pilot with approx 3000 hrs of flying experience. He has flown a variety of aircraft including Su-30 MKI, MiG-21, MiG-29, Hawk, Dornier, An-32, etc. He is also an alumnus of United States Staff College and a DS at DSSC, Wellington and FIS, Tambaram. He has commanded a premier fighter Su-30 Sqn.

• Gp Capt Ajit Krishnan: He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 19 Apr 1982. He is an alumnus of NDA and recipient of President’s Gold Medal and Sword of Honour at Air Force Academy. He was commissioned on 21 Jun 2003 in the fighter stream of IAF.

  He is Flying Instructor and a Test Pilot with approx 2900 hrs of flying experience. He has flown variety of aircraft including Su-30 MKI, MiG-21, MiG-21, Mig-29, Jaguar, Dornier, An-32 etc. He is also alumnus of DSSC, Wellington.

• Gp Capt Angad Pratap: He was born in Prayagraj on 17 Jul 1982. He is an alumnus of NDA and was commissioned on 18 Dec 2004 in the fighter stream of IAF.

  He is a Flying Instructor and a Test Pilot with approx 2000 hrs of flying experience. He has flown a variety of aircraft including Su-30 MKI, MiG-21, MiG-29, Jaguar, Hawk, Dornier, An-32 etc.

• Wg Cdr Shubhanshu Shukla: He was born in Lucknow, UP on 10 Oct 1985. He is an alumnus of NDA and was commissioned on 17 Jun 2006 in the fighter stream of IAF.

  He is a Fighter Combat Leader and a Test Pilot with approx 2000 hrs of flying experience. He has flown variety of aircraft including Su-30 MKI, MiG-21, MiG-29, Jaguar, Hawk, Dornier, An-32 etc.