India begins counting down the time to launch astronauts into space in 2024.
The scheduled launch in Gaganyaan rockets Gaganyaan line of rockets could be considered a triumph of India’s Make-In-India campaign to end dependence on prohibited technology as well as foreign hardware.
“Although our space journey started late in comparison to America or Russia, today we are in a position where our research findings are similar to those of America and Russia,” stated Jitendra Singh the Indian science and technology minister.
“Gaganyaan would be India’s first human flight and it will also be an excellent symbol of self-reliance as it will increase the confidence of the nation,” the official said.
Singh said that Covid-19 that affected 44.7 million Indians was a delay in the treatment by two years.
“In the next year, there will be two preliminary launches. The first launch will be unmanned and this experiment will be done to mark the routes because if the ‘Gaganyaan’ rocket goes into space then it should also return safely the same way.”
Officials say the second launch will feature a robotic that resembles a human, instead of actual astronauts.
“When both the experiments assure that we are completely ready, and then in the third one we will send humans into space,” Singh declared.
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The programme’s cost is estimated to be about the sum of one million euros the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stated while confirming the busy schedule of the space program that is manned.
“Gaganyaan project envisages demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching a crew of three members to an orbit of 400 kilometres for a three-day mission and bringing them back safely to earth, by landing in Indian sea waters,” ISRO stated.
Engineers have said that the spacecraft’s first mission will be launched at 15 kilometers in altitude in which ISRO scientists will carry out experiments to test an abort scenario, so that the spacecraft’s return crew can return to Earth using parachutes.
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Second orbital flights will lift the Gaganyaan’s spacecraft to an upper altitude to conduct extensive tests to improve the onboard flight systems.
It is believed that the Indian Air Force deputed four of its test pilots to be potential crew members for the first human space flight according to officials. They also said they had been trained in Russia the world’s biggest arms exporter.
Moon mission
The ISRO plans to also start the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission later this year. There are reports that rockets could launch to the moon next month or, if not February, then possibly in July.
Chandrayaan-2 has been declared to be a failed mission after the lunar lander exploded on the moon’s surface after it veered off the track on the 6th of September, 2019.
ISRO officials have told Starbulletin the glitches were removed , and the arms of the lander were reinforced to take on higher shocks from the moon’s rough surface.
The year 2014 was the first time India put a satellite on Mars and made it to Mars on the first attempt , while other did not. The mission to the red planet was EUR71 million, which is 11 percentage of the NASA’s Maven orbiter.
Premier Secretary Narendra Modi has opened India’s tightly controlled space industry to private companies to accelerate research and investment in space projects.
“Rules have been simplified. Space has been opened for private public participation (and) today the result is that private rockets are being launched from there,” Singh added.
