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ISRO Plans Gaganyaan Mission's 1st Test
Flight In February 2023
task of designing the crew module and
The Indian Space Research Organisation or
ISRO will start a series of test flights for environment control system was a
India's maiden human space flight mission challenging one as the astronauts should feel
from February next year, a senior official told comfortable even during the re-entry phase,
Press Trust of India The space agency also when the temperatures outside the space
capsule could reach over 2000 degrees
plans to deploy the heavy lift Chinook
helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster celsius. "The crew module, where the
astronauts are supposed to sit and fly, is
transport aircraft for testing the crew module,
which will carry astronauts into the orbit for completed and the fabrication work is on.
Within six months, we will get the crew
three days as part of the Gaganyaan human
space flight mission, R Umamaheshwaran, module," he said on the sidelines of the
Director of ISRO's Human Space Flight event organised by the SatCom Industry
Centre said. Addressing the India Space Association. Mr Umamaheshwaran said the
Congress in New Delhi, he said scientists at environment control system was a critical
ISRO had completed the design of the element of the project as it provides ambient
Environment Control System, which will living conditions in the crew module. "We
ensure ambient living conditions for have to provide oxygen, remove carbon
astronauts in the crew service module when dioxide, remove humidity, maintain
temperature and also ensure there is no fire
they are orbiting the earth.
At least 17 different tests are planned by hazard. This is a very complex technology
which no country would give us," he said.
ISRO next year before it carries out the
unmanned space flight in December next The senior scientist said it was decided to
develop the environment control system
year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had
announced the Gaganyaan Mission in his indigenously. "We have the capability to
design, so we are doing that and that only is
Independence Day address in 2018 with a
tentative target of achieving it in 2022, when taking a little bit of time. We have completed
the country completed 75 years of freedom all the design and now is the time to prove
from colonial rule. However, the Covid that whatever has been designed is safe
pandemic led to several delays and the first enough. That is the entire effort,"
Mr Umamaheshwaran said. The shortlisted
Indian astronauts are likely to undertake their
maiden spaceflight by the end of 2024 or astronauts are currently undergoing further
training at the Astronaut Training Facility in
early 2025. Mr Umamaheshwaran said the
Bengaluru, he said.
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