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ISRO targets first Gaganyaan mission launch by December 2024.

Sriharikota, August 16, 2024. ISRO has targeted to launch the first mission of the ambitious Gaganyaan project by December. Currently, some of the rocket hardware for the human space programme has reached the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here and the integration of the crew module was going on at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said. "Today, we are working on the first mission of the Gaganyaan called G1. The first unmanned mission. The status today is the rocket, the S200 stage, the L1, C32 stage are all at Satish Dhawan Space Centre," he said.
ISRO tests high efficiency, low cost battery
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ISRO tests high efficiency, low cost battery

Bengaluru, January 05, 2024. ISRO on Friday said it has tested a new kind of battery cell which is more efficient and costs less than conventional ones. The national space agency said it has qualified 10 Ah Silicon-Graphite-anode based high energy density Li-ion cells as a low weight and low cost alternative to conventional ones being used currently. The flight demonstration of the cells as a battery was also successfully completed by powering a resistive load onboard the POEM-3 platform of PSLV-C58, launched on January 1.
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