Sriharikota: Congratulating the scientists over the profitable launch of the Gaganyaan first check automobile on Saturday morning, quickly after it was postponed on account of a glitch, ISRO chief S Somanath defined the difficulty detected which hindered the scheduled lift-off of the Gaganyaan TV-D1.
The ISRO chief hailed the crew for his or her work in understanding and rectifying the glitch quick and stated that it was a giant coaching for the crew to organize for the Gaganyaan programme.
“I am happy that our team could understand and rectify the anomaly fast. Congratulations to everybody. This is a big training for the team here to prepare for the Gaganyaan programme,” he stated in his handle after the profitable check.
The check was initially scheduled to be held at 8 am in the present day which was postponed to eight.30 after which once more to eight.45 am on account of dangerous climate. With 5 seconds to go for the lift-off, the launch was halted as a result of glitch.
Somanath explains glitch
Explaining the error, the ISRO chief stated, “After going through the nominal lift-off process, there was a bolt issued by the ground computer which detected non-conformance for allowing the engine to continue the thrusting to further go. This happened due to a monitoring anomaly in the system. So we could identify very fast and corrected. To make the stage ready, it took some time to refill the gases. Once that was completed, we went through the proper automatic launch sequence which checked the entire health of the vehicle and finally the mission computer authorised the launch to take off which released the rocket from the launchpad.”
“I am very happy to announce the successful accomplishment of the TV-D1 mission. The purpose of this mission was to demonstrate the crew escape system for the Gaganyaan program through a test vehicle demonstration in which the vehicle went up to a Mach number, which is slightly above the speed of sound and initiated an abort condition for the crew escape system to function. The crew 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. and we have a confirmation of the data for all of this,” he stated.
The three essential parachutes of Gaganyaan TV-D1 deployed after the profitable check automobile launch.
The crew module of Gaganyaan TV-D1 has safely landed within the Bay of Bengal.
What ISRO chief stated after preliminary glitch?
“The lift-off attempt of TV-D1 could not happen today. Initially, the launch was scheduled at 8 am, but there was the postponement of the lift-off time due to the weather situation. We had a smooth ALS (Automatic Launch Sequence), leading up to the command to lift-off the engine, but the engine ignition has not happened in the nominal course. We have to find out what went wrong with that. We will come back soon after analysing what has triggered the Automatic Launch Sequence, holding the vehicle,” says ISRO chief S Somanath on Gaganyaan TV-D1 check automobile launch,” Somanath stated earlier in the present day.
(With inputs from companies)
