Mon May 05 21:28:44 UTC 2025: ## Indian-Made Parachutes Shipped for Historic Gaganyaan Mission

**Bengaluru, India (May 6, 2025)** – A crucial component of India’s ambitious Gaganyaan human spaceflight program has been shipped to Bengaluru. Ten indigenously developed parachutes, designed for the safe return of the unmanned G-1 mission’s capsule, were dispatched from Agra on Monday.

Developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the parachutes will undergo testing during the upcoming uncrewed mission. The complex deployment sequence involves apex cover separation parachutes, drogue parachutes for stabilization, pilot parachutes, and finally, three main parachutes to ensure a safe landing.

The parachutes were formally flagged off by Dr. Manoj Kumar, Director of ADRDE, and are now en route to the ISRO Satellite Integration and Testing Establishment (ISITE) in Bengaluru. There, the ADRDE team will integrate them with the crew module in preparation for the G-1 mission, slated for later this year. This mission is a critical step towards India’s goal of sending a crew of two or three astronauts into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as part of the Gaganyaan program.

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