S. Somanath, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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ISRO will conduct three more test vehicle missions underneath the bold Gaganyaan programme after the maiden TV-D1 test flight, which is scheduled on October 21, the area company’s chairman S. Somanath mentioned on October 14.
The Gaganyaan challenge envisages an illustration of the human spaceflight functionality by launching a human crew to an orbit of 400 km and bringing them safely again to earth by touchdown in Indian sea waters.
The test vehicle improvement flight (TV-D1) will likely be carried out on the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh to test the crew module that’s scheduled to home Indian astronauts in the course of the human spaceflight late subsequent yr.
“The first test vehicle flight (of the Gaganyaan mission) will be conducted on October 21. After that we have planned for three more test missions, D2, D3, D4. We will hold thorough tests during the test flight sequence,” Mr. Somanath, who can be the secretary, Department of Space, instructed reporters in Madurai. He was right here to take part in a few occasions in Rameswaram.
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TV-D1 entails launching the crew module to outer area, bringing it again to earth and recovering it after landing within the Bay of Bengal.
Recently, the Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh mentioned the Bengaluru-headquartered area company would perform the primary of a number of test flights forward of the Gaganyaan maiden mission on October 21 at Sriharikota.
To a question concerning the Aditya-L1 programme, the maiden photo voltaic mission undertaken by ISRO, Mr. Somanath expressed hope that the spacecraft will attain the Lagrange level (L1) in the course of January 2024.
“We will insert it in the L1 point and undertake various scientific experiments from that point,” he mentioned.
Last week, ISRO scientists carried out a trajectory correction manoeuvre on the Aditya L1 spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched by a PSLV-C57 rocket on September 2.
On the organising of one other launch pad in Kulasekarapattinam in Tuticorin district, he mentioned ISRO would find a way to avail a number of advantages from that launch pad as it could be helpful for launching smaller rockets and to serve personal gamers.
“…right now bigger rockets like PSLV need to take a turn towards the southward direction above Sri Lanka since the launch pad is in the east (in Sriharikota). Whereas in Kulasekarapattinam, we don’t need to make rockets to make that turn as they will be already facing southward,” he mentioned.
“Smaller Satellite Launch Vehicles and private players will be able to use that launch pad (in Kulasekarapattinam). Right now, the land is in the acquisition stage. It will take two years for completion,” Mr. Somanath mentioned.
