ISRO launches Gaganyaan's TV-D1, demonstrates crew escape system for manned flight
It lifted off at 10 am and demonstrated the functioning of the crew module and mid flight crew escape system
SRIHARIKOTA: After the successful launch of the Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took its next giant stride in the realm of space.
On Saturday it launched Gaganyaan's TV-D1 a single-stage liquid rocket test flight into space scripting another remarkable space odyssey.
The launch was scheduled for 8 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. However, it was called off seconds before launch.
It lifted off at 10 am and demonstrated the functioning of the crew module and mid flight crew escape system.
Andhra Pradesh Governor S. Abdul Nazeer has congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation scientists for successfully accomplishing the Test Vehicle D1 mission, the first test for the Gaganyaan human space flight mission.
Governor said that the nation is proud of ISRO achievement of successfully completing the test vehicle mission as a predecessor to the Gaganyaan programme, which aims to send humans into space on a Low Earth Orbit of 400 kms and bring them safely back to the Earth, and wished them all success in their future missions.