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About five seconds before India’s first rocket part of its human space mission/Gaganyaan-Test Vehicle-D1 (TV-D1) was supposed to lift off from the first launch pad on Saturday, the computer systems put on hold the blast off.

The Indian space agency has rescheduled the first test flight to check the crucial crew escape system of its rocket that would carry the country’s astronauts into space sometime in 2025.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the government has drawn up a roadmap for the development of space sector and that day was not far when an Indian will travel to the Moon in an indigenously built spacecraft.

ISRO Chairman S Somanath had recently said similar kinds of abort missions would be conducted much before the human space flight programme.

The department of space presented a comprehensive overview of the Gaganyaan mission, including various technologies developed so far such as human-rated launch vehicles and system qualification.

The transfer of technology agreement was signed by Kuppuswamy, Vice President, Data Patterns and Rajeev Jyoti, Technical Director, IN-SPACe and A.Arunachalam, Director, NewSpace India Ltd.

Besides, ISRO is also working on regular scientific missions including communication, remote sensing satellites, Somanath, who is also the Secretary of the Department of Space, said here.

Speaking to reporters Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S.Somanath said the first unmanned test mission TV-D1 will happen on Oct 21.

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday shared images of the first crew module of India's maiden human spaceflight venture - the Gaganyaan mission.Crew modules will carry astronauts contained in a pressurized earthlike atmospheric condition during the mission.

According to the space agency, it will commence unmanned flight tests for the Gaganyaan mission.

India is set to become the first nation in the world to witness the "waking up" of Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander and rover after the end of a two-week long "sleep" due to sunset on the moon, as the sun is set to rise during the early hours of September 22, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh informed Lok Sabha on Thursday.

Indian space agency in the wee hours of Tuesday sent off the Aditya-L1 solar observatory towards the Sun by successfully inserting it at the Trans-Lagrangian Point 1.

According to ISRO, STEPS was activated on September 10 at a distance greater than 50,000 km from Earth. This distance is equivalent to more than eight times the Earth's radius, placing it well beyond Earth's radiation belt region.

The first, second and third earth-bound manoeuvre was successfully performed on September 3, 5 and 10 respectively.

The new orbit attained is 296 km x 71767 km, it said, adding the next manoeuvre is scheduled on September 15, around 2 am.