The Indian Space Research Organisation is not in a hurry to execute Gaganyaan, the manned mission to space, and the Chandrayaan-3 mission in a hurry as the space agency wants to ensure all safety aspects and systems are absolutely in place leaving no room for any issues to occur, ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said on Thursday.
While the Gaganyaan mission was an extremely important one for ISRO, ensuring the safety of astronauts flying on the GSLV Mk III was the top priority for the agency, he said. Scientists were working on the crew escape module and implementing intelligence into the rocket so that in case an issue arises, the rocket can decide that the crew needs to eject the vehicle.
“Aircraft can let pilots know that they have to eject. But rockets cannot do that. Rockets are moving very fast and rockets themselves have to find out something is going bad now ‘so let these fellows go away’. It will automatically command an escape system and the astronauts can escape. This is a new system we are working on,” he said.
