Newsnomics AJAY ANGELINA reporter |
India is going to launch another major spaceflight endeavor astronaut mission to space named Gaganyaan after the success of Chandrayaan-3 on the Lunar South pole and Aditya-L1 sun explorer said the ISRO, India’s Space research Organization.
Gaganyaan translates "celestial vehicle" in Sanskrit will be India's attempt to launch at least three astronauts to low-Earth orbit before the end of 2024, though a concrete timeline for liftoff hasn't been shared yet.
The India’s space agency is going to launch the first high-altitude abort test flight from the Indian spaceport in Sriharikota to validate the crew escape system for Gaganyaan astronaut mission on October 21.
Jitendra Singh, deputy minister for science and technology said, “ISRO will launch an empty module from Satish Dhawan Space Center situated in India on October 21 before bringing it safely back to Earth.”
TV-D1, the Test Vehicle Demonstration 1 will also test drogue parachutes designed to stabilize the spacecraft and decelerate it during its reentry into Earth's atmosphere along with validating the crew escape system.
After the successful launch of test missions, the schedule for the first crewed mission carrying three astronauts that will travel to LEO at an altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers) for three days will be decided said R. Hutton, the project director of the Gaganyaan mission at a conference organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, the local media reported.
The series of tests to validate the crew escape system began in July 2018, when ISRO first carried out a technology demonstration with the first pad abort test aimed at getting the crew module away from the launch vehicle in case of emergency. Earlier this year, ISRO announced it had resumed tests to perfect its technology and hardware for the human spaceflight program, including recovering a mock crew module from a closed pool and successfully deployed ribbon-type drogue parachutes on a rocket-powered rail track sled.
Moreover, four Indian astronauts trained at Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow in preparation for the crewed flight from February 2020 to March 2021,
