Isro efficiently conducts second built-in air drop check for Gaganyaan

House company ISRO has efficiently performed the second built-in air drop check (IADT-02) for the upcoming Gaganyaan mission on the house station in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota.

The system is important to make sure secure restoration of the crew module — the capsule wherein astronauts sit throughout a human flight — throughout re-entry and touchdown.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh congratulated the Indian House Analysis Organisation (ISRO) for efficiently conducting the check.

“Congratulations #ISRO for the profitable accomplishment of Second Built-in Air Drop Take a look at (IADT-02) for #Gaganyaan, India’s first Human House flight scheduled subsequent yr. The second Built-in Air Drop Take a look at (IADT-02) was efficiently performed at Satish Dhawan House Station Sriharikota,” Singh mentioned in a publish on X.

The IADT-02 follows the profitable completion of the primary IADT, which passed off on August 24, 2025 on the Satish Dhawan House Centre in Sriharikota.

Air drop checks recreate the final leg of a spacecraft’s return to the Earth. An plane or helicopter drops the spacecraft from a peak to check varied programs underneath completely different situations.

These are the deployment of the parachute system in case the mission is aborted mid-flight, system efficiency when one parachute fails to open, and the spacecraft’s orientation and security throughout splashdown, and so forth.

Within the first IADT, a 4.8-tonne dummy crew module was dropped from a peak of three km by a Chinook helicopter.

After the module’s launch, a parachute system, comprising 10 parachutes, was deployed, serving to the capsule decelerate to a secure splashdown pace.