The test vehicle mission is the predecessor to the Gaganyaan
programme which aims to send humans into space on a low Earth orbit of 400kms.
ISRO's unmanned test
flight for its first human spaceflight mission 'Gaganyaan' today lifted off
from Sriharikota, the first landmark in India's ambitious space mission.
This flight abort test was conducted to test
the efficiancy of the vehicle's crew escape system, which will be used in case
astronauts need to eject in case of an emergency.
"We are
very happy to announce the success of the mission. The purpose of the mission
was to demonstrate the crew escape system. The vehicle went slightly above the
speed of sound, before it initiated the crew escape system," Indian Space
Research Organisation S Somanath said from the mission centre.
"The escape system
took the crew module away from the vehicle and subsequent operations including
the touch-down at the sea have been very well accomplished," he added.
Mr Somanath
said that the agency is now working to retreive the crew modules from the sea.
Test
Vehicle D1 mission was scheduled for a lift-off from the first launch pad at 8
am which was revised to 8.45 am. But just 5 seconds before the launch, the
countdown stopped. ISRO identified the cause and successfully pulled off the
test at 10am.
The
test vehicle mission is the predecessor to the Gaganyaan programme which aims
to send humans into space on a Low Earth Orbit of 400kms for three days and
bring them safely back to the Earth.
India
will demonstrate its human spaceflight capabilities in a mission called
Gaganyaan, scheduled to launch in 2024. The country will set up a space station
by 2035 and work on a Venus orbiter as well as a Mars lander.
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