ISRO may use Russian-made suits instead of IVA suits for Gaganyaan astronauts

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The India-made IVA suits have been developed by Vikram Sarabhai Space. These suits will soon be ready for use and testing by the space agency. Earlier it was planned that astronauts would wear these IVA suits during the Gaganyaan mission. However, preparations for the mission indicate that the Indian astronauts will wear Russian spacesuits.

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An official document seen by Soumya Pillai of Hindustan Times reads, “Keeping in mind the programmatic requirements and to doubly ensure the safety of the crew, the plan to include the Russian space suit for the (Gaganyaan) mission Has been created.”

Earlier this month, S Somnath had called the year 2024 the “year of Gaganyaan” as ISRO is scheduled to conduct major tests and demonstrations related to the mission in the coming months.

ISRO’s Gaganyaan Mission

ISRO aims to demonstrate its capability to execute India’s first human spaceflight mission programme, the Gaganyaan Mission. Under the space programme, ISRO will launch a crew of three members into a 400 km orbit for a three-day mission and bring them back safely.

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Before the actual manned mission, the space agency will conduct a number of tests and programs to ensure 100% success of the program.

Ahead of the launch of the Gaganyaan space flight, ISRO is focusing on several critical technologies including a human-rated launch vehicle to safely carry the crew into space, a life support system to provide an Earth-like environment to the crew in space. Will be on development. To develop crew management aspects for emergency rescue provision of crew and crew training, recovery and rehabilitation.

The precursor missions that will be carried out before the Gaganyaan mission include Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT), Pad Abort Test (PAT) and Test Vehicle (TV) flights. Apart from this, the Indian space agency will also test the safety and reliability of all the systems in the unmanned mission before the manned mission.

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Published: Jan 12, 2024, 10:47 pm IST