Test flight of Gaganyaan rocket likely in December
India has plans in place to go for human space mission under Gaganyaan
The Gaganyaan rocket’s three stages have come to Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The integration of the crew module is happening at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram - Dr S Somanath, Chairman, ISRO
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Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): The first test flight of India’s human rated rocket for its human space mission ‘Gaganyaan’ is expected to take place in December 2024, said a top official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Speaking to the media after the successful orbiting of India’s earth observation satellite-08 (EOS-08) DrSSomanath, Chairman, ISRO, said: “The Gaganyaan rocket’s three stages have come to Satish Dhawan Space Centre (located here). The integration of the crew module is happening at VSSC (Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram).”
According to Somanath, all the systems for the Gaganyaan rocket code named G1 will reach Satish Dhawan Space Centre here in November this year and the target for the rocket flight is December.
On Friday morning ISRO’s new rocket – Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) successfully put into orbit two satellites EOS-08 and SR-0 belonging to a space start-up Space Rickshaw in copy book style.