Gaganyaan-G1 mission to validate critical technologies in the run-up to manned flight: VSSC Director S. Unnikrishnan Nair
The HinduGaganyaan-G1, the first of three un-crewed test missions that will lead up to India’s maiden human spaceflight, is designed to mimic - end to end - the actual flight and validate critical technologies and capabilities including the Human-rated Launch Vehicle Mark-3, S. Unnikrishnan Nair, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, has said. Speaking to The Hindu about the upcoming HLVM3-G1 mission, Dr. Unnikrishnan Nair said the integration of the crew module, which will fly aboard the mission, is progressing at the VSSC, which is ISRO’s lead facility for launch vehicles at Thumba here. “After a series of tests including thermo-vacuum tests at the URSC, the orbital module will be transported to Sriharikota to be placed aboard the launch vehicle,” said Dr. Unnikrishnan Nair, who was the first Director of the Human Space Flight Centre, Bengaluru. “It is designed as an end-to-end mission covering lift-off, injection into orbit, ‘circularisation’ of orbit, re-entry and splashdown,” Dr. Unnikrishnan Nair said.
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