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The Gaganyaan mission is India’s first human spaceflight mission under development.
“The Gaganyaan mission is going very well. In fact, when you talk about the Gaganyaan mission, there are a lot of technology developments that have to happen, you know – the rocket has to be human-rated, the orbital module has to be developed, and the environmental control protection system has to be developed. Then come the crew escape system, the parachute system and then, of course, the human-centric products,” Narayanan answers a question about the progress. Hui said. Of mission.
He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of promotional activities for the upcoming Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC-2025) to be held from November 3 to 5 in New Delhi.
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He said that almost 90 percent of the development work has been completed.
He further said, “Now three uncrewed missions have to be completed before going on the crewed mission and we are working towards this. In the first uncrewed mission, Vyommitra is going to fly and we are working towards completing the crewed mission by early 2027.”
On August 24, 2025, ISRO completed the first integrated air drop test for the Gaganyaan program at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
According to ISRO, this test successfully demonstrated the objective of end-to-end performance verification of the critical parachute-based deceleration system of the Crew Module for the Gaganyaan mission in one of the typical mission scenarios.
The ISRO chairman said, “For the Gaganyaan programme, the integrated air drop test – because when the entire module comes back to the final stage, about nine parachutes have to work in a synchronized manner for a proper splashdown – so we flew a simulated module to a height of about three kilometers above the earth using a helicopter. Using nine parachutes, it dropped successfully. Went.”