India To Send A Robotic Humanoid Spaceship Into Space

As early as December of this year.

The Indian Space Research Organization plans to send a ship carrying a humanoid robot into orbit in December 2025, the organization's chairman Vanniyaperumal Narayanan said, his words reported by Odisha Bytes. The flight will take place in preparation for the manned Gaganyaan mission scheduled for March 2027.

A robot named Viommitra with a female appearance will be sent on the flight to test all key systems of the manned spacecraft, Narayanan noted. Viommitra will test life support systems and the flight control system. According to the chairman of the organization, two more unmanned missions are planned to be launched in 2026. If they are successful, India's first manned space mission will be launched in March 2027.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Project Gaganyaan in 2018 and set a goal of launching the first manned space flight in 2022. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues, the flight kept getting postponed.

The mission's spacecraft is designed by the Indian Space Research Organization and is designed for a crew of three. India could potentially become the fourth country after Russia, the United States and China to conduct an independent manned space flight.

In May, the 101st launch of India's PSLV-XL rocket ended in failure. The launch vehicle failed to put the EOS-09 remote sensing satellite into orbit. The rocket was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center launch pad in southeast India at 5:59 local time (3:29 a.m. Minsk time).

Earlier, China successfully launched the Tianwen-2 probe to collect soil samples from the Comoalev asteroid and deliver them to Earth. The launch was carried out by a Changzheng-3B rocket from the Sichang Space Center in Sichuan province. "Tianwen-2" will take a year to reach the asteroid. The spacecraft was equipped with four robotic arms and a drill to take a soil sample.

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