India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The development activities of Gaganyaan mission validating human rating aspects include the following:
Parallelly, various ground qualification tests towards demonstrating new systems realized for Gaganyaan are progressing.
Gaganyatris have completed generic training at Glavkosmos, Russia. Gaganyaan mission specific training is in progress at Astronaut Training facility, Bengaluru. The 1st test mission, TV-D1 is accomplished. Activities are in progress for 2nd test mission, TV-D2. Development and ground testing of all propulsion stages and structures completed for Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HLVM3).
1st crewed mission is targeted in 2027.
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