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#1 2018-12-30 21:48:45
- SpaceNut
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Human missions coming soon for India
Cabinet approves 'Gaganyaan programme' for manned flight to space
In major boost to India's ambitious programme to send astronauts to space, the Union Cabinet has approved Rs 10,000-crore "Gaganyaan Programme" that envisages two unmanned and one manned flights to the space.
Informing about the decision on Friday, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said: "Three Indian astronauts will be sent to space for up to seven days by 2022."
Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15, the total fund requirement for the Gaganyaan Programme is within Rs 10,000 crore and includes cost of technology development, flight hardware realisation and essential infrastructure elements. Two unmanned flights and one manned flight will be undertaken as part of the programme.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will collaborate extensively with various national agencies, laboratories, academia and industry to accomplish the Gaganyaan Programme objectives.
While the ISRO will be responsible for realising the flight hardware through industry, national agencies, laboratories and academia will participate in crew training, human life science technology development initiatives as well as design reviews.
First human space flight demonstration is targeted to be completed within 40 months from the date of sanction. Prior to this, two unmanned flights in full complement will be carried out to gain confidence on the technology and mission management aspects.
The ambitious programme will also allow pooling in of diverse technological and industrial capabilities and enable broader participation in research opportunities and technology development.
It is also expected to spur research and development within the country in niche science and technology domains and provide huge potential for technology spinoffs in areas such as medicine, agriculture, industrial safety, pollution, waste management, and water and food resource management, among others.
The ISRO has completed the development of launch vehicle GSLV Mk-lll which has the necessary payload capability to launch a three-member crew module in low earth orbit. It has also tested the crew escape system which is an essential technology for manned space flight.
The aerodynamic characterisation of crew module has been completed as part of GSLV Mk-lll X mission flight.
Elements of life support system and space suit also have been realised and tested. In addition, the orbital and re-entry mission and recovery operations have been flight demonstrated in Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE) mission.
Another kick in the pants for Nasa to finally get going....
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#2 2020-10-25 09:41:13
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Re: Human missions coming soon for India
For SpaceNut re topic ...
Your recent post about India inspired me to take a look to see how many topics already exist with "India" in the topic title.
There turned out to be a good number, and this one had no replies, so I decided it deserves to be brought back into view.
We have spammers who are from India, as indicated by their IP addresses. I'd like to invite ** real ** persons from India to contribute to update of the numerous topics already in place about India's space program in this forum.
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#3 2022-10-11 09:24:40
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Re: Human missions coming soon for India
There is another new mars thread around with Lady Gaga jokes
Manned mission
‘Gaganyaan likely to be launched by start of 2024’ says Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh
https://www.newsx.com/gaganyaan/
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission is Finally out of Fuel After 8 Years of Science Operations
https://www.universetoday.com/158026/in … perations/
Scientists and engineers seem to have difficulty coming up with estimated mission timelines for their space exploration projects. Most don’t even reach the first day after succumbing to one form or another of technical failure, sometimes resulting in a dramatic fireball. Others have missions that extend orders of magnitude longer than they were originally designed for. Such is the case for India’s first mission to the Red Planet, which finally seems to have run out of fuel eight years into its original six-month mission.
The mission, known colloquially as the Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was initially launched in 2013 and entered an orbit around Mars in 2014. While in orbit, it spent the better part of eight years collecting data to send back to its operating scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Though technically planned as a technology demonstrator, MOM, also known as Mangalyaan (or “Mars craft” in Sanskrit), carried five scientific instruments, which, while they were relatively small and inexpensive, weighing in at just over 15 kg for the whole payload, they also provided critical insight into areas that scientists didn’t understand about Mars at the time.
Chandrayaan-1 was India's first mission to the Moon. The robotic lunar exploration mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor called the Moon Impact Probe.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081028053 … iption.htm
ISRO is considering an orbiter mission to Venus called Shukrayaan-1, that news reports say could launch as early as 2023.
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#4 2023-08-23 10:14:30
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Re: Human missions coming soon for India
The un-manned Robotic Lander
and some possible manned mission news
Live screening of Chandrayaan-3 moon landing in Tiruchi
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Ti … 227444.ece
Chandrayaan-3 | How NASA, ESA will support ISRO during the Moon landing
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien … 216311.ece
To put India's tremendous success today in perspective, here is a list of all [I believe - send corrections if you think I have missed one] 50 lunar landing attempts that have left the Earth's surface. Score to date: Earthlings 23, Gravity 27.
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1 … 6740322371
India's New Space Policy: Ambitions Of A New India
Republic World, Republic TV is a conservative India Hindu English-language news channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0prU9PTZM
From Aditya to Gaganyaan: ISRO to have packed schedule after Chandrayaan-3
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/ … -23-888466
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