Gaganyaan Mission
India's First Human Spaceflight Programme
Gaganyaan is India's indigenous human spaceflight mission, aimed at sending a crew of Indian astronauts to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at approximately 400 km altitude for a mission of up to seven days. It represents the culmination of decades of incremental ISRO capability building and positions India as only the fourth country to independently develop crewed spaceflight capability, after the US, Russia, and China.
- Launch vehicle: LVM-3 (formerly GSLV Mk III), modified as Human-Rated LVM-3, with an integrated Crew Escape System for crew safety
- Crew module: Designed to carry 2–3 astronauts; 5.3-metric tonne capsule
- Target orbit: 400 km altitude, Low Earth Orbit
- Mission duration: Up to 7 days for crewed flight
- Four selected astronauts (Gaganaut candidates): Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap, Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla — all Indian Air Force pilots
- Vyommitra: A female humanoid robot to fly in uncrewed test flights (G1) to simulate astronaut conditions
- Uncrewed test flights (G1, G2, G3) precede the crewed mission, currently planned no earlier than 2027
● Tracked since March 09, 2026 · last seen August 31, 2026 · updates as the daily brief publishes
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