ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan addresses a press conference on updates on the Gaganyaan Programme, at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on May 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The launch of India’s maiden human space flight — Gaganyaan — has been pushed to the first quarter of 2027, nearly five years later than…
Representative purposes. | Photo Credit: DRDO A set of parachutes developed for the first uncrewed mission of India’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme was shipped from Agra on Monday (May 5, 2025). The parachutes were developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), an Agra-based laboratory under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)….
India is set to launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission in 2027, marking a significant step in the nation’s space exploration efforts. The mission aims to collect samples from the Moon and return them to Earth, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh has confirmed. The ambitious project will require at least two launches of the heavylift LVM-3…
Union Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI India will launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission to bring back samples of moon rocks to the Earth in 2027, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Chandrayaan-4 will involve at least two separate launches of the heavylift LVM-3…
Union minister Jitendra Singh shared an update on the much-awaited Gaganyaan mission in his reply to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The minister said the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is pursuing an ISRO-NASA joint mission to International Space Station (ISS). In the joint mission, “one Gaganyaatri from ISRO will undertake space travel to ISS”,…
