LVM-3 | CARE (Demo Flight)

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Indian Space Research Organization (Government)
• Rocket: Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) — GSLV family

Mission

The CARE is a mock-up of the planned Indian crewed space capsule. Its mission is to study re-entry and thermal behaviour. CARE does not have the pressure-vessel of the final capsule, but is only a structural mock-up. It will re-enter and land in the bay of Bengal to be retrieved. For the suborbital flight, it is mounted upside-down inside the payload fairing. This launch uses a non-functional 2nd stage. CARE separates from the launch vehicle after 1st stage shutdown.

• Type: Test Flight
• Orbit: Suborbital (Sub)

Launch Site

• Pad: Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad
• Location: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
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Program

• Gaganyaan — Gaganyaan is India's first human spaceflight program. (Wikipedia)