ISRO Gearing Up for Gaganyaan Mission's First Abort Test of Crew Escape System This Month-end

ISRO plans to undertake an inflight abort test of the crew escape system by this month-end using a test vehicle developed as part of the country’s ambitious maiden human spaceflight venture Gaganyaan.

”Preparations are going on. All vehicle systems have reached Sriharikota (for the launch). Final assembly is progressing. We are getting ready for launch by the end of October,” Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) S Unnikrishnan Nair told PTI on Thursday.

”(With) this crew escape system, we will demonstrate (validate) in different conditions like high dynamic pressure and for transonic conditions,” Nair added Thiruvananthapuram-based VSSC is the lead centre of ISRO under the Department of Space.