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Illustrative Picture a white-and-orange capsule adorned with the Indian tricolour, drifting silently in the void of space some 400 kilometres above Earth. It edges closer to the International Space Station, a colossal orbiting laboratory the size of a football pitch that has circled our planet since 1998, reported The Week.India and the United States are in advanced
India stands resolute in its quest to join the ranks of elite spacefaring nations through Mission Gaganyaan, its pioneering human spaceflight program.Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, an Ashoka Chakra awardee and one of India’s select astronauts, reaffirmed this commitment during a media briefing on Wednesday. Despite the formidable technical hurdles, Shukla urged unwavering public enthusiasm for
Azista Space, a Hyderabad-based company, has marked a milestone in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) by successfully demonstrating its capability to track the International Space Station (ISS).The demonstration underscores a growing interest among Indian space firms to develop independent, domestically driven technologies capable of monitoring objects in low Earth orbit and beyond.By focusing on
India’s space sector marked 2025 as a transformative year, with the Department
of Space highlighting significant strides towards "Space Vision 2047". This
period featured groundbreaking technology demonstrations, strengthened
international partnerships, and innovative youth outreach initiatives. The
Centre’s year-end review underscores how these achievements propelled India’s
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, returned safely to Earth on Tuesday following an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).Their journey concluded with a parachute-assisted landing at 10:03 am local time in Kazakhstan, southeast of Dzhezkazgan, after undocking from the ISS on the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft late on
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s distinguished astronaut and experienced test pilot, is set to return to the cockpit of a fighter jet in December 2025.This step forms a crucial part of his ongoing training for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) ambitious Gaganyaan mission, which aims to mark India’s first manned spaceflight around 2027.Before his foray into space, Shukla
Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla received a rousing hero’s welcome on August 25, 2025, at his home-town Lucknow, following his return from the International Space Station (ISS) as the first Indian to participate in the prestigious Axiom-4 mission.Shukla’s historic accomplishment marks a significant milestone for India’s space ambitions, demonstrating the nation’s growing
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently met Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS), at his official residence in New Delhi. During the interaction, the Prime Minister inquired about the “homework” he had assigned to Shukla prior to his landmark mission.Recalling the incident humorously, Shukla revealed that when his colleagues
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor publicly praised Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s historic mission to the International Space Station (ISS) as a monumental achievement and a powerful symbol of India’s growing ambitions in human spaceflight.Delivered through social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) after opposition parties boycotted a special Lok Sabha discussion on Shukla’s mission, Tharoor
Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has returned to India following his historic mission as part of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) program aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking a monumental moment in the country’s space ambitions. Shukla landed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, New Delhi, in the early hours of August 17, 2025, completing the nation’s first human