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Comment: Good article! It's not necessarily too soon to publish it, depending on what additional details can be added now. Perhaps add a 'Background' section with a brief paragraph describing the Gaganyaan programme and its current status. Also perhaps add a 'See also' section linking to
Gaganyaan-1, if the brief background doesn't include a link to that article. Are there sources reporting any details on how the crew size decision will be made? (Also minor note: '1-2' in the lead section could be expanded to 'one or two'.) Will prior un-crewed spacecraft have seats for one or two, etc.? (
— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 09:37, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Comment: Notable and well written/sourced, but it may be TOO SOON, thank you
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Discuss) Proposed since March 2024.
Indian crewed spaceflight, planned 2025
Gaganyaan-4
Render of Gaganyaan crewed spacecraft in deployed twin solar panel configuration, five sections in each wing.
Gaganyaan-4 (from
Sanskrit: gagana, "celestial" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") will be the first crewed test flight of the
Gaganyaan programme, with launch planned for 2025.
Mission
The mission is planned to demonstrate human spaceflight capability by sending a crew to an orbit of 400km of altitude[1][2][3] for 7 days.[4] Reporting in January 2020 for the Hindustan Times,[5] Anonna Dutt quotes
K. Sivan, then chairman of ISRO, as saying,
We are designing the mission for three people to go to low earth orbit for seven days. However, whether we send two people or one person and whether they spend seven days in the orbit or one will be decided [after the] unmanned flights.
On October 2023, it was announced that the first crewed flight would take place after three uncrewed missions of the
human-rated HLVM3.[6] The launch is planned for 2025[7] with the capsule coming down in the Indian Ocean.[8]
Crew
The Gaganyan programme astronauts,
Prasanth Nair,
Angad Pratap,
Ajit Krishnan and
Shubhanshu Shukla, were announced on 27 February 2024.[9] Those selected for the first spaceflight will be from this pool of qualified astronauts, and one of them will fly to the ISS in 2024.[10] Is considered that one or two crewmembers will take part of this mission.[3]
Gaganyaan ([ɡəɡənəjɑːnə];pronunciationⓘ from
Sanskrit: gagana, "celestial" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is an Indian
crewed orbital spacecraft intended to be the formative spacecraft of the
Indian Human Spaceflight Programme. The
spacecraft is being designed to carry three people, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with rendezvous and docking capabilities. In its maiden crewed mission, the
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s largely autonomous 5.3-
metric ton capsule will orbit the Earth at 400 km altitude for up to seven days with a two- or three-person crew on board. The first crewed mission was originally planned to be launched on ISRO's
HLVM3 rocket in December 2021.[11][12] As of October 2023, it is expected to be launched by 2025.[13]
Before the Gaganyaan mission announcement in August 2018, human spaceflight was not a priority for ISRO, but it had been working on related technologies since 2007,[30] and it performed a
Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment[31] and a
Pad Abort Test for the mission.[32][33] In December 2018, the government approved a further ₹100 billion (US$1.5 billion) for a 7-days crewed flight of 2–3 astronauts.[34][35][36][37]
If completed successfully, India will become the fourth
nation to conduct independent human spaceflight after the
Soviet Union/Russia, United States, and China. After conducting the first crewed spaceflights, the agency intends to start a
space station programme, crewed
lunar landings, and crewed interplanetary missions in the long term.[38][39]
International collaboration
ISRO, the Department of Space and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center (IN-SPACe), together with
Voyager Space, agreed to a memorandum of understanding to explore use of Gaganyaan for crew transportation to Voyager's planned
Starlab space station.[40]
Gaganyaan-5
Gaganyaan-5 (from
Sanskrit: gagana, "celestial" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") will be the first crewed test flight of the
Gaganyaan programme, with launch planned in 2025.[41][42][43] Second Crewed Gaganyaan mission. The full details will be announces after
Gaganyaan-4 Success.
^ISRO changed the name of GSLV Mk3 to LVM3 after the successful launch of LVM3-M2 mission. The rename was done to remove any ambiguity on the ability of the vehicle to put payloads in a particular orbit.[17][16]