ISRO’s Gaganyaan Mission Hits New Milestone with Successful Second Integrated Airdrop Test
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has taken a giant leap toward its maiden human spaceflight program by successfully conducting the second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT) of the Gaganyaan Crew Module at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. In this critical demonstration of the mission's recovery system, a simulated crew module was dropped from a heavy-lift transport aircraft at an altitude of several kilometers to test the deployment and stability of the parachute systems. The test successfully validated the complex sequence of deploying the drogue parachutes and the massive main parachutes, which are designed to safely decelerate the module as it returns to Earth. ISRO confirmed that the module's descent was perfectly controlled, culminating in a precise splashdown ...
