India now plans to launch astronauts to the space just 2027, changing the goal post for the country’s first human steering wheel once again.
The Indian Space Minister Jitendra Singh, announced the last duration of delay in a press conference on Tuesday (May 6), which extends through the progress of the CREED Space Flight Program of India and provides an updated timeline for its first Missions Gaganya Creed.
The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) Now pointing to the first quarter of 2027 for its first launch of Astronauts, which originally planned to fly in 2022. The emblematic human spatial overturn will be preceded by a trio of non -improvised releases to Furt Infrast and Groundfy.
“We have to achieve three unlikely missions before aiming at the real creed mission because there is life involved,” said Singh.
The first of those three Missions of Gaganyaan without recipients, known as G1, will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year, and will carry a half -humanoid Robot Namomitra (Sanskrit for “Space Friend”) to collect data in data.
The second and third missions of Gaganyaan, G2 and G3, will also lead to Vyomitra, and will be launched in 2026. The first Mission of Creed, called H1, will fly in the first quarter of 2027.
India astronauts, or Gaganyatris, for Missions H1 and H2 were selected in February 2024. They are Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Kishnan, Angad Pratap and Shubhanhu Shukla, all of which the Air Force made known. Test pilots
The Gaganyatris will be launched in pairs aboard H1 and H2, aligning India to become only the fourth country to launch people in orbit, after the United States, the Soviet Union/Russia and China. The missions will take them to the low land orbit for about three days before a splashes on the ground. The quartet is currently in its final training phase, according to Singh.
The missions will release the Gaganyaan spacecraft of India in a launch vehicle with human qualification Isro Mark-3, or HLVM3Rocket. The four -stage launching vehicle measures 143 feet (43.5 meters) high, with two solid rocket reinforcements and a recently designed capsule ejection tower to separate the crew and spacecraft of the rocket in case of emergency.
Duration its presentation, Singh also update development updates on the infrastructure of the Gaganyaan mission, including the interfaces of the launch pad, a Misiones Control Center, Evacuation Contingencies of the crew and communications systems. Between the earth support and the launch vehicle, Singh said that the development is complete at 90%, with only the final phases of grades.
“All propeller internships are ready today … All structures are qualified and crew modules and service modules are performed. It is experiencing the final phase of integration and tests,” said Singh.
