Bengaluru-based Alpha Design Technologies, which developed the critical crew module (CM) for the successful first Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1) on October 21, will supply three more crew modules and other critical items like front cones for the upcoming Gaganyaan mission.
The crew module was indigenously manufactured at Alpha Design Technologies at Peenya Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram. The crew module is where astronauts are contained in a pressurised earth-like atmospheric condition during the Gaganyaan mission.
The crew module for the Gaganyaan mission is in different stages of development. For the TV-D1, the crew module was an unpressurised version.
