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Gaganyaan’s Unmanned Mission May Go To Space Next March, ISRO Ships To Track From Pacific, Atlantic Oceans – News18


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To monitor Gaganyaan’s unmanned mission, ISRO will send ships carrying scientists to be stationed at observation points in the Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean

ISRO’s TV-D1 test flight of Mission Gaganyaan lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Station, in Sriharikota on October 21, 2023. (Image: PTI/File)

India’s most ambitious space project, Gaganyaan, could take off with an unmanned mission as early as March next year.

Indian Space Research Organisation will be sending ships carrying scientists to be stationed at observation points in the Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, to monitor the unmanned mission.

Its success will be a big milestone in India’s history and could determine the launch of Gaganyaan’s manned mission in 2026. Four astronauts are already training for that three-day mission, for which they will go to space to orbit 400 km and return to Earth by landing in Indian seawaters.

CNN-News18 accessed documents with details of Gaganyaan’s first unmanned mission. “ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) under Government of India is scheduling a scientific experiment tentatively during the period between March 1, 2025 and August 31, 2025. Tentative schedule of mission is slated as March 1, 2025,” the documents state referring to ‘Gaganyaan G1 Mission’, described as an unmanned mission from Sriharikota.

Eight ISRO scientists will be on board each of these ships, which could sail for at least two weeks to reach their locations.

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HOW WILL IT WORK?

To support the mission, two ships from two different locations – the Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean – will be deployed with full equipment to support crew operations. ISRO will establish hybrid communication circuits from the ships to MOX-ISTRAC and SCC-ISTRAC in Bengaluru, both of which played a crucial role in Chandrayaan-3.

A consignment with a shipborne terminal (SBT), electronic equipment, MV-SAT antennas and its associated subsystems will be sent abroad from ISTRAC for deployment on these chartered ships.

“This scientific experiment, being a new development and considering the system readiness, the date of experiment is scheduled between the above period of March 1, 2025 and August 31, 2025,” state the documents.

For the observation point in the North Atlantic Ocean, ISRO will send the ISTRAC consignment from the nearest Indian port to a New York port by cargo shipment. The charter vessel from New York will sail to a location in the North Atlantic Ocean, which is 3,000 km away, and will take 13 to 14 days to complete its journey, as per the documents.

The ISRO team of eight officials will join the vessel at the origin point in New York and sail to the observation point. Tracking activities for the mission will be for a maximum of three days.

All ISRO equipment will be deployed on the vessel deck under the supervision and guidance of the team of scientists. They will sail along with the equipment on the chartered vessel to support the mission and may operate the equipment daily while on their way to the observation point.

The vessel will reach the observation point in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean at least two days before the starting date of the mission. It will be positioned at the observation point for three days and, during the mission support, dynamic positioning system will be enabled in multiple sessions for a maximum cumulative duration of around 15 hours.

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