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ISRO aims to send humans into space on a Low Earth Orbit of 400 km for a three-day mission and bring them safely back to earth.

The launch of a single-stage liquid rocket on Saturday will signal ISRO’s journey towards its ambitious human space flight programme, Gaganyaan, when the first crew module test to ensure the safety of astronauts will be conducted by the space agency here. ISRO aims to send humans into space on a

As the Chandrayaan-3 mission drifts off into sleep, Sethu Pradeep writes about ISRO's Gaganyaan mission and what the space agency will need to develop for it.

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All systems in LVM3 are re-configured to meet human rating requirements and christened Human Rated LVM3 (HLVM3)

The crew escape system is a critical safety feature of the Gaganyaan mission. It will be used to evacuate the crew in the event of an emergency during launch or ascent.

Indias Gaganyaan mission, the countrys first human spaceflight venture, is set to launch its first test vehicle mission in the next month or two. This mission will validate the crew escape system, marking the first of four abort missions for the Gaganyaan program. The success of this test vehicle mission and subsequent uncrewed missions will determine the timeline for the crewed mission.

According to officials of ISRO it would be the first of the four abort missions of the Gaganyaan programme.

According to officials of the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency, it would be the first of the four abort missions of the Gaganyaan programme

ISRO has successfully carried out two more tests as part of plans to further validate and refine the performance of the propulsion system that would be used to launch India's first human spaceflight mission Gaganyaan.