India is getting ready to perform an important test for its ambitious crewed Gaganyaan Space Mission, which is scheduled for next month. The person in charge of the project, R Hutton, informed Reuters about this.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is presently training four astronauts and plans to increase this number as it looks ahead to more manned missions in the future, according to Hutton.
The main goal of the Gaganyaan mission is to create a space capsule that can support human life. It will carry a crew of three into an orbit 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth for three days before safely splashing down in the Indian Ocean.
Once the Gaganyaan mission is accomplished, ISRO intends to explore ways to maintain a long-term human presence in space.
The team is focused on testing a system that can eject astronauts in emergencies, called the crew escape system. This will be done before a series of other tests leading up to the final launch. Hutton emphasized that ensuring safety is their top priority.
Approximately 90.23 billion rupees have been allocated for this mission. This comes after ISRO’s significant achievement of landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the lunar south pole. Although an exact launch date hasn’t been shared, it’s anticipated that the mission will take off from the main spaceport in Sriharikota before 2024.
ISRO has previously reported that its Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre successfully tested systems to stabilize the crew module and safely reduce its speed during re-entry.
