Gaganyaan: Scientists at ISRO have started analysing data from the crew escape system

India's first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, aims to show human spaceflight capacity. Following the successful first test vehicle development flight (TV-D1) for India's first human spaceflight, Gaganyaan, on Saturday, scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said they have begun analysing data from the crew escape system and are also studying the crew module recovered from the ocean.

According to a senior officer at ISRO, teams have begun examining test flight data to determine how different systems functioned. Additionally, they are evaluating the crew module's systems' resilience to the landing in the Bay of Bengal.

Saturday morning's TV-D1 test flight was completed by ISRO, despite several weather delays and a brief computer malfunction. It was the first of several safety tests the space agency had planned to carry out before India's first-ever human launch.

The main goals of the test flight on Saturday were to conduct crew module characteristics, show off the test vehicle's subsystems, and crew escape mechanisms, including different separation systems, and showcase higher-altitude deceleration systems and their recovery.

The Gaganyaan mission, India's first human spaceflight endeavour, aims to showcase human spaceflight capabilities by sending a three-person crew into a 400-kilometer orbit for a three-day trip and successfully returning them. The space agency will conduct many rounds of testing in the lead-up to the actual human trip to ensure the systems are safe to carry and return astronauts to Earth without incident.