Australia will assist Indias Gaganyaan mission through tracking it via Cocos Keeling island. There are blind spots by which there is an opportunity of not receiving signals, sources said. The records relay satellite monitoring from Cocos Keeling island is anticipated to help tackle the issue.
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Satellites in orbit can’t skip alongside their information to the ground stations on Earth if it does not now have a clear view of the floor station. A relay satellite serves as a way to bypass the satellites information.
Official announcement of the Gaganyaan programme was made by PM Modi at some point of his Independence Day tackle on 15th August 2018.
The first target was to launch the human spaceflight earlier than the 75th anniversary of Indias independence on August 15, 2022.
The goal of the Gaganyaan programme is to reveal the capability to ship people to low earth orbit on board an Indian launch vehicle and convey them back to earth safely.