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2028 Chandrayaan-5 launch site preparation begins: ISRO team visits Japan for assessment | – The Times of India

The ISRO team’s visit to Japan to evaluate the launch site preparations for Chandrayaan-5 is another milestone in terms of international cooperation for space exploration, especially between ISRO and the Japanese space agencies. The visit will be primarily aimed at evaluating the preparations of the launch facility, compatibility in technicalities, and joint mission planning for …

How a Bengaluru firm helped Isro-IAM run a high-altitude astronaut behaviour study – The Times of India

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BENGALURU: When the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and the Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM) wrapped up its high-altitude human behaviour simulation near Leh on April 9, much of the focus was on what it could reveal about crew psychology. Less visible was the role played by a Bengaluru-based firm that enabled the exercise on …

How Chandrayaan-1 added to factors that brought the Moon back into humanity’s future – The Times of India

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From Chandrayaan 1 (image credit: Isro) to Artemis 2 (Image credit: Nasa) For much of the late 20th century, the Moon was treated as a closed chapter. After Apollo, samples brought back to Earth seemed to settle the argument. The Moon was dry, ancient and geologically inactive. There was no water to sustain life, no …

ISRO’s Bharatiya Antriksh Station first module set to launch in 2028: Advanced technologies, global space presence, and costing details | – The Times of India

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India’s aspirations in space exploration are taking a major leap forward as it develops the Bharatiya Antriksh Station. The project, which seems to be heavily connected to the Gaganyaan mission, is now going beyond the conceptual phase. According to PIB reports, the space station will have five modules, of which the first module, called BAS-01, …

10 years in space: ISRO’s IRNSS-1F completes its 10-year mission life with lasting impact on NavIC | – The Times of India

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Imagine a satellite moving around the Earth for an entire decade without any sound, sending precise location details to millions of people on the Earth’s surface. IRNSS-1F, one of India’s navigation satellites, completed its 10-year design mission life on March 10, 2026, marking a key milestone for the country’s regional navigation system. The Indian Space …

Isro, AIIMS partner to build space medicine for human missions – The Times of India

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BENGALURU: Isro and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have signed an MoU to collaborate on space medicine research aimed at supporting India’s future human spaceflight missions.The agreement will focus on studying how the human body responds to long-duration space travel and developing medical systems to keep astronauts healthy in orbit, Isro said …

Gaganyaan milestone: DRDO conducts successful drogue parachute qualification test at Chandigarh – The Times of India

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NEW DELHI: India’s human spaceflight programme marked a significant milestone after the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted a qualification-level load test of the drogue parachute for the Gaganyaan mission.The test was carried out on Thursday at the Rail Track Rocket Sled (RTRS) facility of DRDO’s Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory in Chandigarh. The …

Isro identifies site on Moon for Chandrayaan-4 lander – The Times of India

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Isro chief V Narayanan (PTI photo/file) BENGALURU: The Chandrayaan-4 Mission is at least two years away, but the Isro has identified a location in the South Polar region of Moon to land its lander.The union government has approved the Chandrayaan-4 mission, designed as a lunar sample-return mission and it will be India’s most complex lunar …