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Gaganyaan & Bharatiya Antariksh Station
India's human-spaceflight effort has two linked goals: put Indian astronauts, the Gaganyatris, into orbit on an Indian rocket, and then assemble the Bharatiya Antariksh Station, a five-module national space station. Answering the Lok Sabha on 5 August 2026, the government set out the sequence it is now working to — an uncrewed experimental flight in the last quarter of 2026, two more uncrewed flights and the first crewed mission by 2027, and a working station by 2035.
Last updated 6 August 20267 min read
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Reset the flight schedule from the official Lok Sabha reply of 5 August 2026: the first uncrewed test flight is now targeted in the last quarter of 2026 and the first crewed mission by 2027, replacing the 2027-28 slippage reported earlier; the station is still to be operational by 2035.
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