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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.
India's Gaganyaan mission, the country's 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.