India's human spaceflight programme has cleared another hardware milestone. Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has delivered the fourth set of the Crew Escape Ogive Shroud (CEOS) to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the Gaganyaan G2 mission, the company announced.

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The component was manufactured at L&T's Precision Engineering and Systems facility in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and handed over to ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) after multiple quality inspections. L&T said the set was delivered ahead of the planned schedule.

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The CEOS is the cone-shaped shroud at the front of the Crew Escape System, the safety mechanism designed to pull the crew module away from the launch vehicle within seconds if an emergency occurs on the launch pad or during ascent. The system sits on ISRO's human-rated launch vehicle, the HLVM3.

L&T's Coimbatore facility is producing several other mission-critical packages for Gaganyaan, including crew module structures and thrust transfer structures, according to the company's statement reported by the Times of India.

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Gaganyaan is India's first human spaceflight programme, aimed at demonstrating the country's capability to send astronauts into orbit aboard an indigenous spacecraft. The G2 mission is part of the uncrewed test series that precedes the first crewed flight.