{"id":34323,"date":"2023-04-09T03:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T22:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34323"},"modified":"2025-04-20T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:02:37","slug":"gaganyaan-mission-from-astronauts-training-to-tech-upgrade-isro-making-leaps-to-meet-2025-target-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gaganyaan-mission-from-astronauts-training-to-tech-upgrade-isro-making-leaps-to-meet-2025-target-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaganyaan Mission: ISRO Making Leaps to Meet 2025 Target For Manned Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Gaganyaan Mission?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How is ISRO getting ready for the Gaganyaan Launch?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Other ISRO\u2019s Missions to be Launched this Year<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been busy working towards sending humans to space under the Gaganyaan Mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Gaganyaan Mission?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaganyaan project (expected to be launched in 2025) envisages <strong>demonstration of human spaceflight capability<\/strong> by launching a <strong>crew of 3 members to an orbit of 400 km<\/strong> for a 3 days mission and bring them back safely to earth.\n<ul>\n<li>It is part of the<strong> Indian Human Spaceflight Programme (IHSP)<\/strong>, which was initiated (2007) by the ISRO to develop the technology needed to launch crewed orbital spacecraft into low earth orbit (LEO).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3\/GSLV Mk3) rocket <\/strong>&#8211; the well proven and reliable heavy lift launcher of ISRO, is identified as the launch vehicle for Gaganyaan mission.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India\u2019s heaviest rocket <\/strong>consists of solid stage, liquid stage and cryogenic stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>All systems in the LVM3 launch vehicle are re-configured to meet human rating requirements and christened <strong>Human Rated LVM3\/HLVM3<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/Di8aAaTrsCJr3asM0ggyhQSA0OJvTdC3B20BO3gw4646ccwKbAloYWMea9EQpQpe7iJjda1CxVk12kYFrLA9AIKdvyDAbd4tGLeo9O7XPzcTHlOdTouYUavRLaymeZjVxqbubVBF2IEy\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: Gaganyaan Mission \u2013 Major Milestones Planned<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xif7TpQc3OA\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xif7TpQc3OA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How is ISRO getting ready for the Gaganyaan Launch?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of the recent efforts &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>HLVM3 launch vehicle,<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading the mission control complex,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building an \u2018umbilical tower\u2019<\/strong> on the second launch pad (Sriharikota) for maintenance of the rocket while on the launch platform,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agreement with Australia<\/strong> for setting up a mobile unit for direct-to-ground communication at Cocos Island.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The selected astronauts<\/strong> have completed the first semester of the mission-specific training in India, after completing a generic training for spacefaring in Russia.<\/li>\n<li>The space agency<strong> will undertake two test vehicle missions <\/strong>to demonstrate crew escape systems mid-flight and the retrieval of the crew module once it splashed down in the ocean.<\/li>\n<li>This will be <strong>followed by the first unmanned Gaganyaan mission<\/strong> that will carry an unpressurised crew module.<\/li>\n<li>Subsequently, there will be two more test vehicle missions to check all systems before the <strong>second unmanned flight.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Other ISRO\u2019s Missions to be Launched this Year:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The space agency has planned 15 satellite and launch vehicle missions this year, including the launch of the recently operationalised <strong>small satellite launch vehicle and three space science missions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There will be one mission of the heavy rocket LVM3, which is likely to carry on-board <strong>Chandrayaan-3<\/strong> likely by mid-2023.\n<ul>\n<li>The mission will <strong>complete the objectives of Chandrayaan-2<\/strong>, attempting a soft landing and then roving on the lunar surface close to the south pole of the celestial body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Aditya L1 mission<\/strong> is likely to take place in June or July in 2023 on board the workhorse PSLV.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the Launch Vehicle Mark-3?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Previously referred to as the GSLV Mk III, it is a three-stage medium-lift launch vehicle developed by the ISRO. Primarily designed to launch communication satellites into geostationary orbit, it is also due to launch crewed missions under the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is the Low earth orbit (LEO)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>LEO encompasses Earth-centered orbits with an altitude of 2,000 km or less. It is considered the area in Earth orbit near enough to Earth for convenient transportation, communication, observation and resupply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/gaganyaan-from-astronauts-training-to-tech-upgrade-isro-making-leaps-to-meet-2025-target-for-manned-mission-8546259\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>From astronauts\u2019 training to tech upgrade, ISRO making leaps to meet 2025 target for manned mission<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/Gaganyaan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ISRO<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaganyaan project envisages demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching a crew of 3 members to an orbit of 400 km and bring them back safely to earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}