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India to test the emergency escape system for Gaganyaan’s crew capsule this year

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India aims to send three astronauts to orbit before the end of 2024. The first high-altitude abort test to validate the crew escape system for India's upcoming Gaganyaan astronaut mission could launch in early October or November at the latest, according to officials at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).


Along with validating the crew escape system, the Test Vehicle Demonstration 1 (TV-D1) will also test drogue parachutes that are designed to stabilize the spacecraft and decelerate it during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. The test mission will launch from the country's spaceport in Sriharikota, followed by a couple of uncrewed flights with a similar goal to test key technologies over the course of 2024.


At a conference organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, R. Hutton, the Project Director of the Gaganyaan mission, announced that the schedule for the first crewed mission, during which three astronauts will travel to LEO at an altitude of 400 kilometres for three days, will be decided after these test missions.


The reconfigured 143-foot-tall (43.5 meters) Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) rocket, which is ISRO's vehicle of choice for the crewed flight next year, has recently received human safety certification.


From February 2020 to March 2021, four Indian astronauts trained at Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow in preparation for the crewed flight. 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 deploying ribbon-type drogue parachutes on a rocket-powered rail track sled.



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