Future Missions of ISRO
Gaganyaan
Gaganyaan project envisages demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching crew of 3 members to an orbit of 400 km for a 3 days mission and bring them back safely to earth, by landing in Indian sea waters.
The pre-requisites for Gaganyaan mission include development of many critical technologies including
- human rated launch vehicle for carrying crew safely to space,
- Life Support System to provide an earth like environment to crew in space,
- crew emergency escape provision and
- evolving crew management aspects for training, recovery and rehabilitation of crew.
Various precursor missions are planned for demonstrating the Technology Preparedness Levels before carrying out the actual Human Space Flight mission.
- These demonstrator missions include Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT), Pad Abort Test (PAT) and Test Vehicle (TV) flights. Safety and reliability of all systems will be proven in unmanned missions preceding manned mission.
- LVM3 rocket – The well proven and reliable heavy lift launcher of ISRO, is identified as the launch vehicle for Gaganyaan mission. HLVM3 will be capable of launching the Orbital Module to an intended Low Earth Orbit of 400 km.
- Astronaut Training Facility established in Bengaluru caters to Classroom training, Physical Fitness training, Simulator training and Flight suit training.
- India’s maiden human spaceflight mission under ISRO’s Gaganyaan program will be launch in 2024. While the first unmanned flight test flight will launch later this year, the second will involve launching a female figurine ‘VyomMitra’ in the second half of 2023.
- ‘VyomMitra’ will actually be a humanoid robot that will gather crucial spaceflight data to be used later when actual astronauts launch into space.
