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Schedule of Gaganyaan [6] [35] [36] Mission Patch Launch date Crew Launch vehicle Duration Goal Status Gaganyaan-1 (Test Flight 1) TBA 1 March 2025 [2] [37] — LVM3: 2 days Technology demonstration: Planned Gaganyaan-2 (Test Flight 2) TBA Q1 2025 [5] [37] — 2 days Technology demonstration mission carrying Vyommitra, the humanoid robot Planned
In August 2024, Shukla was announced as the pilot of Axiom Mission 4, a private mission to the International Space Station scheduled for spring 2025. [4] [5] The cost of Shukla's seat on the mission has been quoted as being in the "mid-$60-million range" (around 506 crore rupees). [6]
ISS commanders are listed in italics. "Duration" is the period of time between the crew's launch from Earth and until their decoupling from the ISS. Future international collaboration on ISS activities has been thrown into doubt by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.
Hurricane Milton is seen off the coast of Yucatan Peninsula on Oct. 8, 2024, from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above. (NASA via Getty Images) (NASA via Getty Images) 10.
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station.
ISRO chairman K. Sivan has said that India will not join the International Space Station programme and will instead build a 20-tonne (22-short-ton; 20-long-ton) space station on its own. [139] [140] It is expected to be placed in a low Earth orbit at 400 kilometres (250 mi) altitude and be capable of harbouring three humans for 15–20 days.
The 5th Aero India 2005, the biennial air-show-cum-defence exhibitions, was held at the Yelahanka Air Force Base in Bangalore from 9–13 February 2005. The Aero India 2005 attracted record 380 exhibitors from the world's leading industries in the field of civil and military aviation, aerospace and airfield upgrade.
Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in lunar, Mars and low-earth orbit exploration. ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year.