The first uncrewed flight of India’s Gaganyaan mission will happen before March next year, the government said in Parliament on Thursday. This flight is part of seven launches that ISRO has lined up between now and the first quarter of 2026.

Gaganyaan, India’s human spaceflight programme, is slated to have at least three uncrewed flights before taking astronauts to space. In response to a question in the Rajya Sabha , Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh, who is also in charge of the Department of Space, said six more launches were planned before March of next year.

Among these was the launch of Earth Observation Satellite EOS-10, also known as Oceansat 3A. This will improve India’s meteorological, oceanographic and land-based observations and strengthen its capabilities in t

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