After all, why is India’s Gaganyaan mission being delayed? ISRO is focusing more on astronaut safety and training.

scientific information office,The country’s first astronaut mission, Gaganyaan, has been postponed to 2026. This mission was supposed to be launched next year. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief S Somanath announced the postponement of the Gaganyaan mission by a year. He said that before the country’s astronauts’ mission into space, many uncrewed test flights would be carried out. Due to some setbacks faced by the aerospace industry recently, ISRO is exercising utmost caution regarding the preparations for the Gaganyaan mission. With the launch of this mission, India will become the fourth country after America, Russia and China to send astronauts into space. ISRO’s elaborate training procedures and addition of a fourth uncrewed flight are also among the reasons for postponing the mission. As part of the Gaganyaan mission, one or two astronauts will be taken to low Earth orbit, about 400 kilometers above the Earth.

The return of US space agency astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed until February next year due to a technical problem in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft . In June of this year, Williams and fellow astronaut Wilmore arrived at the ISS for a mission of just eight days. Their return, however, had to be postponed due to technical problems with the Styliner. ISRO has also learned lessons from this case. ISRO has carried out several tests to improve the security of the Gaganyaan mission. This includes the evaluation of emergency evacuation mechanisms and recovery systems. Crew training for the Gaganyaan mission continues in the country as well as abroad. Indian Air Force test pilot Shubhanshu Shukla is among the astronauts trained for this mission.

The G1 flight could be carried out later this year as part of preparations for the Gaganyaan mission. The humanoid robot Vyomitra will be sent on this flight. In this context, flight reentry, use of the parachute and controlled landing will be tested in the Bay of Bengal. After G1, three more uncrewed flights will complete the test phase of the Gaganyaan mission.