By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Taking India’s space mission a step further, the Navy and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released the Recovery Training Plan for the Gaganyaan mission at the Water Survival Training Facility at INS Garuda, in Kochi.
The document outlines the training plan for recovery of the Crew Module of the mission, the Indian Navy said on Friday. It defines overall requirements with regard to training of various teams participating in recovery operations include divers, MARCOs, medical specialists, communicators, technicians and Naval aviators, it said.
Two unmanned missions and one manned space flight are scheduled to be conducted under the ambitious Gaganyaan programme. The manned space flight mission is scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The training document was jointly released by Vice Admiral Atul Anand, Director General of Naval Operations; Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre; and Dr Umamaheshwaran R, director, Human Space Flight Centre, ISRO.
The recovery training is planned in incremental phases starting from unmanned recovery to manned recovery training in harbour and open sea conditions. The recovery operations are being led by the Indian Navy in coordination with other government agencies.
The Crew Module Recovery Model was also formally handed over to the Navy at its state of the art Water Survival Training Facility at INS Garuda, Kochi. The mass and shape simulated mockup will be used for familiarisation and training of Gaganyaan recovery teams.
The Indian Navy will also assist ISRO by undertaking a series of trials to fine tune the Standard Operating Procedures for training the crew and recovery teams of Gaganyaan. The Gaganyaan programme envisages undertaking the demonstration of human spaceflight to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in the short-term and will lay the foundation for a sustained Indian human space exploration programme in the long run. The objective of Gaganyaan programme is to demonstrate indigenous capability to undertake human space flight mission to LEO.
The uncrewed ‘G1’ mission is targeted to be launched in the last quarter of 2023 followed by the second uncrewed ‘G2’ mission in the second quarter of 2024, before the final human space flight ‘H1’ mission in the fourth quarter of 2024. The astronauts designated for flight mission are currently undergoing their mission specific training at Bengaluru.
NEW DELHI: Taking India’s space mission a step further, the Navy and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released the Recovery Training Plan for the Gaganyaan mission at the Water Survival Training Facility at INS Garuda, in Kochi.
The document outlines the training plan for recovery of the Crew Module of the mission, the Indian Navy said on Friday. It defines overall requirements with regard to training of various teams participating in recovery operations include divers, MARCOs, medical specialists, communicators, technicians and Naval aviators, it said.
Two unmanned missions and one manned space flight are scheduled to be conducted under the ambitious Gaganyaan programme. The manned space flight mission is scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
The training document was jointly released by Vice Admiral Atul Anand, Director General of Naval Operations; Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre; and Dr Umamaheshwaran R, director, Human Space Flight Centre, ISRO.
The recovery training is planned in incremental phases starting from unmanned recovery to manned recovery training in harbour and open sea conditions. The recovery operations are being led by the Indian Navy in coordination with other government agencies.
The Crew Module Recovery Model was also formally handed over to the Navy at its state of the art Water Survival Training Facility at INS Garuda, Kochi. The mass and shape simulated mockup will be used for familiarisation and training of Gaganyaan recovery teams.
The Indian Navy will also assist ISRO by undertaking a series of trials to fine tune the Standard Operating Procedures for training the crew and recovery teams of Gaganyaan. The Gaganyaan programme envisages undertaking the demonstration of human spaceflight to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in the short-term and will lay the foundation for a sustained Indian human space exploration programme in the long run. The objective of Gaganyaan programme is to demonstrate indigenous capability to undertake human space flight mission to LEO.
The uncrewed ‘G1’ mission is targeted to be launched in the last quarter of 2023 followed by the second uncrewed ‘G2’ mission in the second quarter of 2024, before the final human space flight ‘H1’ mission in the fourth quarter of 2024. The astronauts designated for flight mission are currently undergoing their mission specific training at Bengaluru.
