ISRO Pad Abort Test

 ISRO's Pad Abort Test India's hopes rest on a test... If not successful, the biggest space mission will be postponed!

ISRO Pad Abort Test

In May this year, ISRO is going to do a pad abort test of its first human spaceflight program i.e. Gaganyaan. If this mission is successful then India will become the fourth country in the world to get this technology. If unsuccessful, there may be a slight delay in the Gaganyaan mission. Know 

what is Pad Abort Test?

What is Pad Abort Test

What is Pad Abort Test

ISRO i.e. Indian Space Research Organization is running the Gaganyaan mission under its Human Spaceflight Program. Union Science Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh told that ISRO is going to do Pad Abort Test in the month of May this year. What is this test after all? Why is this important? What will happen by doing this test?

Abort means ending the mission. Pad abort test is actually Launch Escape System. Actually, the way the fighter pilot ejects the seat in case of any kind of emergency or fault in the fighter jet. In the same way, there is a launch escape system in the rocket of Human Spaceflight Mission. In which the crew-module ie the cabin in which the astronauts are seated is separated from the rocket.

x