ISRO started finalizing HLVM3; Preparations to take a long leap in the space sector

India has started preparations to take a long leap in the space sector. ISRO has in fact started preparations for the launch of its ambitious Gaganyaan mission. Under this, the assembly of HLVM3 (Human Rated Launch Vehicle Mark-3) has been started at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Center. The Gaganyaan mission is to be launched in the year 2025. These preparations are being done at a time when ISRO's LVM3-X mission has completed 10 years. The LVM-X mission was launched in the year 2014 and now this HLVM-3 is an advanced form of the same LVM-X.

The LVM mission was used to test sending humans into space, which included the successful launch of the mission and recovery of the crew module. Through the LVM, the 3,775-kg crew module was taken into space up to an altitude of 126 km. The mission of 2014 successfully landed in the Bay of Bengal. The Gaganyaan mission will take three astronauts to the low Earth orbit for a three-day mission and then bring them safely back to Earth by landing in Indian sea waters.

The Gaganyaan mission was approved in the year 2019. Since the new HLVM3 will also carry humans into space, its design considerations are in collaboration with the safety concerns for astronauts. It is a 53-meter-long three-stage vehicle, weighing a total of 640 tonnes, and is capable of carrying a weight of 10 tonnes into the low orbit of the Earth. Along with this, a crew escape system has also been integrated into it, with the help of which astronauts will be able to exit the vehicle in space.