Gaganyaan test vehicle launch successful: ISRO chief S Somanath
Gaganyaan test flight for crew escape system abort demonstration (TV-D1) from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday morning was successful in the second attempt at 10 am. The maiden attempt at 8.45 am was unsuccessful.
After the successful launch, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief S Somanath in a live telecast from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre said, «I am very happy to announce the successful accomplishment of the TV-D1 mission. The purpose of this mission was to demonstrate the crew escape system for the Gaganyaan programme through a test vehicle demonstration in which the vehicle has gone up to a speed of Mach 1.2, which is slightly more than the speed of sound.»
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Reason for hold
Explaining the reason for the hold at 8.45 am, he said, «After going through the nominal lift-off process there was a hold issued by the ground computer called the
