India, Feb. 12 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

The major accomplishments under the Gaganyaan programme in the past year include the following:

· IADT-01 successfully demonstrated the objective of end-to-end performance validation of the critical parachute-based deceleration system of the Crew Module for Gaganyaan mission in nominal mission scenarios.

· For TV-D2 mission, electrical and mechanical integration activities of Crew Module completed. Environmental tests completed.

· Standalone checks of integrated Crew Module and Service Module completed for G1. Integrated software simulations being carried out.

· Service Module Propulsion System hot test for 350s to validate the integrated performance fo...