TV-D1

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Unknown 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

Nosu • Sept. 21, 2023, 7:20 p.m.

Targeting October 26



Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster

Family: GSLV MK2 L40
Configuration: L40

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
    760 kN
Family
  • Name
    Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster
  • Family
    GSLV MK2 L40
  • 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

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Chairman: S. Somanath Founded: 1969 Successes: 74 Failures: 13 Pending: 17

Agency Type: Government

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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