Crew Escape System

The Gaganyaan manned space flight mission will launch "Indian astronauts into space from Indian soil on an India-made rocket", Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, the head of the elite Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Kerala, told NDTV in a special interview.

ISRO announced the success of the 'TV-D1' (Test Vehicle Development Flight 1) in the Gaganyaan Mission. The test vehicle was launched on the second attempt after it had faced an engine ignition problem at 8:45am IST. Later, it said that the errors have been identified and corrected and the second launch was scheduled for 10:00am IST today. 

ISRO plans to undertake an inflight abort test of the crew escape system by the end of this month using a test vehicle developed as part of the country's ambitious maiden human spaceflight venture Gaganyaan.

India is set to conduct a key test in its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan as early as next month, the project director of the mission R Hutton told Reuters. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently training four astronauts and looking to expand the cohort as it aims for more future manned missions, Hutton said.

The crew escape system is a critical safety feature of the Gaganyaan mission. It will be used to evacuate the crew in the event of an emergency during launch or ascent.

ISRO successfully completed test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of crew escape system from Sriharikota spaceport, the space agency said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a virtual space museum 'SPARK' was launched by ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Wednesday for public use.

An important milestone in the planned human spaceflight project Gaganyaan was completed on Wednesday with the successful test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of crew escape system from Sriharikota spaceport.

As the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going at full throttle for Gaganyaan, the country's maiden manned space mission scheduled for launch in 2023, interesting details of the Crew Module (CM), including the landing choices.

ISRO on Thursday carried out the first in a series of tests to qualify a crew escape system.

Heeding a lesson from history, designers of a new generation of US rockets will include escape systems to give crew members a fighting chance of surviving launch accidents such as the one that felled an unmanned Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Tuesday.

Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia and nine others, including two crew members, had a narrow escape today when a state government aircraft carrying them aborted take-off from the Chandigarh airport after its control system got jammed.

The Gaganyaan manned space flight mission will launch "Indian astronauts into space from Indian soil on an India-made rocket", Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, the head of the elite Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Kerala, told NDTV in a special interview.

ISRO announced the success of the 'TV-D1' (Test Vehicle Development Flight 1) in the Gaganyaan Mission. The test vehicle was launched on the second attempt after it had faced an engine ignition problem at 8:45am IST. Later, it said that the errors have been identified and corrected and the second launch was scheduled for 10:00am IST today. 

ISRO plans to undertake an inflight abort test of the crew escape system by the end of this month using a test vehicle developed as part of the country's ambitious maiden human spaceflight venture Gaganyaan.

India is set to conduct a key test in its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan as early as next month, the project director of the mission R Hutton told Reuters. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently training four astronauts and looking to expand the cohort as it aims for more future manned missions, Hutton said.

The crew escape system is a critical safety feature of the Gaganyaan mission. It will be used to evacuate the crew in the event of an emergency during launch or ascent.

ISRO successfully completed test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of crew escape system from Sriharikota spaceport, the space agency said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a virtual space museum 'SPARK' was launched by ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Wednesday for public use.

An important milestone in the planned human spaceflight project Gaganyaan was completed on Wednesday with the successful test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of crew escape system from Sriharikota spaceport.

As the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going at full throttle for Gaganyaan, the country's maiden manned space mission scheduled for launch in 2023, interesting details of the Crew Module (CM), including the landing choices.

ISRO on Thursday carried out the first in a series of tests to qualify a crew escape system.

Heeding a lesson from history, designers of a new generation of US rockets will include escape systems to give crew members a fighting chance of surviving launch accidents such as the one that felled an unmanned Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Tuesday.

Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia and nine others, including two crew members, had a narrow escape today when a state government aircraft carrying them aborted take-off from the Chandigarh airport after its control system got jammed.