What Is ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission, Described? importance, launch date, and other information

 What Is ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission, Described? importance, launch date, and other information

With today's (October 21) maiden Test Vehicle Flight TV-D1 from Sriharikota, the key phase of India's first Human Space Mission, Gaganyaan, will officially start.

On Saturday at eight in the morning, a single-stage liquid-propelled rocket with a crew module and crew escape system will be launched.

The test vehicle trip aims to examine the crew escape mechanism and crew module safety in preparation for the future Gaganyaan mission, which would transport Indian astronauts back to Earth.

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All the details about ISRO's ambitious Gaganyaan Mission are as follows:

As part of the Gaganyaan journey, ISRO will send three people on a 3-day journey to an orbit 400 km above the planet and return them safely.

The Bengaluru-based Gaganyaan Astronaut Training Facility offers crew training in the classroom, in physical fitness, in simulators, and in flight suits.

What is the launch of TV-D1?

The single-stage liquid propulsion rocket, Test Vehicle - Demonstration (TV-D1), will attempt a successful launch on Saturday by ISRO. As a virtually finished system is integrated for the test, the test vehicle flight with this crew module represents a key milestone for the entire Gaganyaan program.

The first Gaganyaan program would be launched if this test flight was a success, setting the scene for the subsequent certification tests and uncrewed flights.

The crew escape mechanism and crew module will be launched by Test Vehicle Abort Mission (TV-D1) at a height of 17 km, and they are planned to safely land in the ocean around 10 km east of Sriharikota, India. Later, the Navy would recover them from the Bay of Bengal. Through this program, scientists want to protect the crew who will really fly on the Gaganyaan mission in the crew module attached to an LVM-3 rocket.

Project Gaganyaan

The Gaganyaan project, which has a name derived from the Sanskrit term for a ship or conveyance to the sky, has been created at a cost of 90 billion rupees. If it is successful, India will join the US, China, and the Soviet Union as the only other nations to have sent a person into space.

Isro will launch a humanoid — a robot that mimics a person — in an unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft next year if today's test goes according to plan. The female humanoid, dubbed Vyommitra—the Sanskrit term for "space friend"—was introduced by Isro in 2019.

In 1984, Rakesh Sharma from India spent 21 days and 40 minutes in space aboard a Russian spacecraft.