After successful launch of Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1 mission, India eyes on the next mission Gaganyaan. India will start a critical test for its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan as early as next month. In order to prepare more astronauts for future manned trips, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently training four astronauts and trying to increase the trajectory.According to the experts, the Gaganyaan mission aims to create a human-habitable spacecraft that will launch a three-person crew into a 400 km (250 mile) orbit for three days before splashing down safely in the Indian Ocean.In addition to this, ISRO has announced that it will look into ways to maintain a human presence in space after Gaganyaan.While speaking to ANI, back in August before the launch of Aditya-L1, ISRO chief S Somanath said, “Aditya mission to the Sun & it is getting ready for launch in September. Gaganyaan is still a work in progress. We will do a mission possibly by the end of September or October to demonstrate the crew module & crew escape capability which will be followed by many test missions until we do the first manned mission possibly by 2025.”#WATCH ISRO chief S Somanath on Aditya L-1 and Gaganyaan missionAditya mission to the Sun & it is getting ready for launch in September. Gaganyaan is still a work in progress. We will do a mission possibly by the end of September or October to demonstrate the crew module &… pic.twitter.com/9LVoWMJHX3— ANI (@ANI) August 24, 2023As per sources, before conducting a series of other tests before to the final launch phase, the team plans to test its crew escape mechanism, which can be used to extract astronauts in an emergency. Focus is ensuring the safety.The mission, which follows the space agencys historic Chandrayaan-3 probe landing on the lunar south pole, has a budget of about ₹90.23 billion.While the exact timeline has not been mentioned so far, but it is anticipated that ISRO is planning to launch this before 2024 from the main spaceport Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.The space agency had earlier announced that it had successfully tested its systems for stabilising the crew module from Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
