India's Crew Launched Escape System Test
India launched an uncrewed test of the emergency-escape system of its new crew capsule. See the liftoff and splashdown here.
Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ISRO | edited by Steve Spaleta
Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ISRO | edited by Steve Spaleta
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00:00 [Music]
00:24 [Foreign Language]
00:40 On your TV screens, the visuals, the real time visuals of the drogue parachutes in a deployed condition
00:48 being captured from the crew module. Current altitude 10 kilometers.
01:00 [Foreign Language]
01:24 [Foreign Language]
01:36 The intent of drogue parachutes is to reduce the velocity of crew module from 145 meters per second to 51 meters per second.
01:45 Current velocity 61 meters per second.
01:57 [Foreign Language]
02:09 Next flight event will be triggered by sensing the altitude of 2.5 kilometers, which is the deployment of pilot chutes and then the main parachutes.
02:23 We are at an altitude of 4.7 kilometers.
02:32 [Foreign Language]
02:54 [Foreign Language]
03:08 Visuals of drogue chutes.
03:10 [Foreign Language]
03:28 [Foreign Language]
03:44 To bring down the velocity of impingement in the sea to around 8.5.
03:52 Crew module in descent phase with main chute.
04:00 Plus 6 minutes.
04:02 Relative velocity now 12 meters per second.
04:09 We are at an altitude of 1.6 kilometers.
04:15 [Foreign Language]
04:30 Indian Navy team is readily deployed in the sea around the Sriharikota coast.
04:37 For quickest possible reaching to the crew module and then recovering it.
04:45 [Foreign Language]
05:00 Plus 7 minutes.
05:02 [Foreign Language]
05:12 The crew module is provided with flotation systems.
05:17 And it will be remaining afloat until the recovery crew reaches it.
05:24 To aid in recovery, sea markers and location transmitters are provided to be identified at the quickest possible time.
05:35 [Foreign Language]
05:44 Crew module in descent phase with main chute.
05:49 [Foreign Language]
06:00 Plus 8 minutes.
06:02 [Foreign Language]
06:10 As we told you 8.5 meters per second is the benign touchdown velocity. We are now observing around 9 meters per second velocity.
06:20 While the altitude is around 600 meters.
06:39 [Foreign Language]
06:59 Plus 9 minutes.
07:03 300 meters altitude.
07:13 [Foreign Language]
07:19 [Foreign Language]
07:39 When the crew module touches down, eventually the main parachutes also will be released away from the crew module.
07:47 Impact is sensed.
07:50 Now the confirmation is available for a successful splashdown of the crew module.
07:55 [Foreign Language]
08:04 [Applause]
08:10 [Foreign Language]
08:15 Jubilant ambience in the Mission Control Center here at Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota.
08:26 On your TV screens the visuals live from the Bay of Bengal.
08:30 [Music]