(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
An important milestone in the planned human spaceflight project
Gaganyaan was completed on Wednesday with the successful
test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of crew escape
system from Sriharikota spaceport, space agency ISRO said.
The crew escape system takes away the crew module of Gaganyaan
mission in case of any eventuality and rescues the astronauts, the
Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
said in a statement.
In case of aborting the mission during the initial phase of
flight, LEM provides the required thrust to the crew escape system
to take away the crew module from the launch vehicle, it said.
The main objectives of the static tests are to evaluate motor
ballistic parameters, validate motor subsystem performance and
confirm the design margins and to validate the integrity of all
interfaces, among others, the space agency said.
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