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Gaganyaan TV-D1 Mission - Test flight from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota

Gaganyaan TV-D1 is “In-flight Abort Demonstration of Crew Escape System (CES)” at Mach number 1.2 with the newly developed Test Vehicle followed by Crew Modu...

TV-D1 - Wikipedia

Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1[2] (TV-D1[2] ) will be a high altitude abort test as part of the Gaganyaan program, set to be held on 21 October 2023 at around 8:00 a.m IST.[4] On the launch date, the liftoff was delayed to 8:45 a.m owing to weather issues. However just before …

TV-D1

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

TV-D1, the first development flight from the Gaganyaan program, will be launched up until 11 km from sea level, where an in-flight abort scenario will be initiated, and the capsule should flight until 15–16 km. The mission should test the separation from the rocket and its trajectory until a safe distance and parachute deployment

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 21, 2023, 4:41 a.m.

Mission completed, module has splashed down.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 21, 2023, 4:32 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Oct. 21, 2023, 4:29 a.m.

Livestream has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 21, 2023, 4:12 a.m.

Recycled for another attempt today.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 21, 2023, 3:19 a.m.

Scrubbed for the day.


Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster

Family:
Configuration: L40

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
    760.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster
  • Family
  • Variant
    L40
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Gaganyaan TV-D1


Active Human Rated Unmanned Crew Capacity: 3
Destination: Ocean
Serial Number: None

Capsule used during the inflight abort test.

Gaganyaan Details

Indian Space Research Organization

Indian Space Research Organization

(ISRO)

Chairman: V. Narayanan Founded: 1969 Successes: 81 Failures: 14 Pending: 18

Agency Type:

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore. Its vision is to "harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration."

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