ISRO Success : Third Long Duration Success-ful Hot Test of Liquid Propellant Develop-ment Engine for Gaganyaan Project
The statement given by ISRO said that it was tested at ISRO's ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu and the test was done for 240 seconds at the test facility.
ISRO has stated that the engines which have been tested for performance meet the purpose of testing and IT closely matches the required parameters during the trial period.
About the Gaganyaan program, ISRO said that the purpose of this program is to send humans to the low earth orbit from the Indian launch vehicle and to demonstrate the ability to bring them back to Earth.
In February this year, Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Space had said that India's first unmanned space mission will be completed in December 2021 and the second unmanned space mission is planned to be performed in 2022-23 and then manned spaceflight thereafter.
Already four Indian astronauts have received training in flying spacecraft in Russia under the Gaganyaan programme.Heavy-lift guslav corn has already been identified for the Gaganyaan programme.
It is to be known that the Gaganyaan space program was formally announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 15th August, 2018 Independence Day was made in his address.
The initial target under this program and as per the announcement of the Prime Minister will be on 15th August 2022, before the 75th Independence anniversary of India first manned spacecraft was to be launched.
According to known sources, ISRO is also taking help of him, USA, Russian and French space agencies in the supply and activities of some important parts.
Congratulating ISRO after the successful test of hot test on Wednesday, 14th July, 2021, Elon Musk CEO of SpaceX tweeting congratulating ISRO wrote - Congratulations...
This is not the first time that Musk has tweeted to ISRO. After the launch of 104 satellites on a single rocket by ISRO in the year 2017.When a Twitter user tweeted Musk asking for his thoughts on this achievement, he said that he was very impressed with this record achievement and he called it a Awesome achievement.
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