New Delhi: Four Gagannauts, who have returned to India from Russia in April this year after completing a one-year special astronaut training for the mission of the country’s event, will return to Moscow again to adjust their adjustable space.
“Space clothes are being sewn in Russia and they will come here to Moscow to take sewing measurements,” Indian Ambassador to Russia D B Venkatesh Varma told Indian media recently.
Russian R & D Enterprise ‘Zvezda’, a subsidiary of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, produces space clothing for four Gagannanuts.
The four IAF pilots, chosen for the human spaceflight mission, previously visited the Zvezda facility last September, where their anthropometric parameters were measured to design their adjustable space clothing.
The company will also provide individual seats for custom-made sofa gagannuts and liners.
Provisions for special training, spacuits and space kits are in accordance with the contract signed between the subsidiary of the Roscosmos Glavkosmos and the ISRO Human SpaceFlight center on March 11, 2020.
The fourth Gaganauts, who started their training in Russia in February, which stopped, which was stopped because of a pandemic It has in one year of training on the actions of the crew if there is a landing of abnormal offspring modules, in wooded and swamped areas in winter, on the surface of the water and in steppes in the summer, according to Glavkosmos.
At present, the four chosen are undergoing special module training in India.
In other milestones related to the mission of the mission, ISRO on August 28 managed to test the first hot test of the system demonstration of the propulsion system of the service module for a duration of 450 seconds in the test facility, Tamil Nadu.
System performance meets the test objectives and there are matches close to pre-test predictions.
A series of hot tests have been planned to simulate various mission conditions and off-nominal conditions.
ISRO plans to launch the mission of the first unmanned mission next year but the date for the final mission of Manned has not been decided when a pandemic has affected all the mission special deadlines.