Discuss about India’s maiden human spaceflight programme Gaganyaan also explain its major objectives
Structure of answer:
- • Introduction (Say about mission)
- • About mission
- • Objectives of Gaganyaan mission.
- • Conclusion (say about its importance and significance of mission)
Key points:
- • Gaganyaan (“Sky Craft”) is an Indian crewed orbital spacecraft intended to be the basis of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme.
- • India has already successfully developed and tested several building blocks, including re-entry space capsule, pad abort test, safe crew ejection mechanisam in case of rocket failure, flight suit developed by DEBEL and the powerful GSLV-
MkIII launch vehicle.
- • Used to test orbital injection, separation and re-entry procedures and systems of the Crew Capsule.
- • Also tested were the capsule separation, heat shields and aerobraking systems, deployment of parachute, retro-firing, splashdown, flotation systems and procedures to recover the Crew Capsule from the Bay of Bengal.