Indian Navy And ISRO Successfully Conduct Well Deck Recovery Trials For The Gaganyaan Mission
Last year around February, ISRO and the Indian Navy announced its Gaganyaan Mission which is India’s ambitious human spaceflight program while in May 2023, the Gaganyaan recovery training plan was released at Water Survival Training Facility INS Garuda, Kochi. This recovery training plan was planned in incremental phases starting from unmanned recovery to manned recovery training in harbour and open sea conditions.
ISRO has today officially announced that Well deck recovery trials of the Crew Module for the Gaganyaan Mission were successfully conducted on 6th December.
Indian Navy and ISRO carried out Well-deck recovery trials of Crew Module for Gaganyaan mission on December 06, 2024. The trials were carried out at Eastern Naval Command using welldeck ship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam.
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This trial was part of the Indian Navy’s contribution to assist ISRO through a series of trials to fine-tune the SOPs for training the crew and recovery teams of Gaganyaan. This trial was carried out at Eastern Naval Command using a welldeck ship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam.
The trials for carrying out well deck recovery were carried out using a mass and shape simulated Crew Module Mock-up. The sequence of operations for well deck recovery of the Crew Module was carried out by the Indian Navy and ISRO during the trials. The sequence includes- attachment of the recovery buoy, towing, entering into the good deck ship, positioning of Crew Module on the fixture, and draining of the welldeck. Below are the images-
It is said that this trial validated the overall sequence of operations, and round fixtures and will help in fine-tuning Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
