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February 19, 2026, 04:08 PM - 2 min read
India’s human spaceflight programme 'Chandrayaan' achieved a major milestone with the successful qualification-level load test of the Gaganyaan drogue parachute at DRDO’s TBRL facility in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
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February 11, 2026, 04:26 PM - 3 min read
India must press ahead with Mission Gaganyaan despite delays and technical complexities, astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla said in Bengaluru on Wednesday, asserting that success would make India the fourth nation to independently send humans to space and mark a historic inflection point.
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November 18, 2025, 08:00 PM - 3 min read
"When I got into training for Axiom-4, I did my training up to the mission. It will not be that compact for the first Gaganyaan mission. These missions are so complex that you want to be really sure when you send something up. That is the activity that is happening very intensely. All the systems are being discussed, revised. The philosophy is being checked. That kind of de-brief is happening," he said at the sidelines of the India International Space Conclave organised by the Indian Space Association (ISpA).
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August 24, 2025, 04:13 PM - 4 min read
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully carried out its first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-01) for the parachute-based deceleration system of the Gaganyaan mission.
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July 9, 2025, 02:22 PM - 3 min read
"ISRO's Liquid Propulsion System Centre (LPSC) is leading the technology development activities for the Gaganyaan SMPS. SMPS is a critical system of the Gaganyaan Orbital Module and is required during orbital maneuvering as well as specific abort scenarios," the space agency said.
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