ISRO Chairman S. Somanath throughout a press convention after the profitable launch of PSLV-C58 which carried an X-ray polarimeter satelite and 10 different satelites, in Sriharikota, on January 1, 2024.
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ISRO has lined up a sequence of assessments for Gaganyaan, its bold manned mission, this year and 2024 will be a year of “Gaganyaan readiness,” mentioned the company’s Chairman S. Somanath on Monday.
The Bengaluru headquartered area company earlier within the day had efficiently positioned its first X-Ray Polarimeter satellite tv for pc in PSLV C58 mission.
Briefing reporters on ISRO’s agenda for 2024, he mentioned, “We are going to get ready for at least 12-14 missions this year. 2024 is going to be a year for Gaganyaan readiness, though it is targeted for 2025.
“The Gaganyaan mission started with the TV-D1 or the abort mission (efficiently performed in October 2023). We have 4 such missions within the sequence. Our goal is to do no less than two extra in 2024. By then, we may have three abort mission demonstrations,” said Mr. Somanath, who is also a Secretary in the Department of Space.
Mr. Somanath said that the unmanned missions would help the agency understand its preparedness of various hardware, adding that ISRO would also conduct helicopter-based drop test to prove the parachute systems for the unmanned mission.
“There will be a number of drop assessments. Also, we may have the launch pad abort and a whole bunch of such valuation assessments together with environmental management assist system assessments, the crew module associated assessments and simulation assessments,” he said.
On the other missions lined up for ISRO in 2024, he said, “We are going to have launches of GSLV for NISAR this year itself. We are going to have the primary flight of GSLV with INSAT-3DS quickly. The (launch) car is sort of prepared.
“The second flight of GSLV will carry the NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture radar satellite. This means that a minimum of two GSLV satellites are required to be launched. There are a few more in pipeline, including the NAVIC series.” he mentioned.
