ISRO SUCCESSFULLY conducts 2ND integrated air drop test for Gaganyaan
New Delhi, April 11 -- Space agency Isro has successfully conducted the second integrated air drop test (IADT-02) for the upcoming Gaganyaan mission at the space station in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
The system is essential to ensure a safe recovery of the crew module - the capsule in which astronauts sit during a human flight - during re-entry and landing.
Union minister Jitendra Singh congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for successfully conducting the test.
"Congratulations #ISRO for the successful accomplishment of Second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) for #Gaganyaan, India's first Human Space flight scheduled next year," the Union minister said in a post on X.
Air drop tests recreate the last leg of a spacecraft's return to Earth.
An aircraft or helicopter drops the spacecraft from a height to test various systems under different scenarios.
These are the deploymentof the parachute system incase the mission is aborted mid-flight, system performance when one parachute failsto open and the spacecraft's orientation and safetyduring splashdown etc....
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