India on Saturday completed a key test in its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan, hours after halting the planned lift-off, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.&Reason for the launch hold is identified and corrected,& ISRO posted on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, Reuters reported.

&Crew Escape System performed as intended.

Mission Gaganyaan gets off on a successful note.&The agency did not specify the cause of the delay.The launch had been set for 8 a.m.

(0230 GMT) but could not initially be completed.

It was successfully completed at 10 a.m., ISRO said.The Gaganyaan mission is aimed at developing a human-habitable space capsule that will carry a three-member crew into an orbit of 400 km (250 miles) for three days, before splashing down in the Indian Ocean.ISRO has said it would explore ways to achieve a sustained human presence in space once Gaganyaan is completed.About 90 billion Indian rupees ($1 billion) has been allocated for the mission, which follows the agency&s historic landing of its Chandrayaan-3 craft on the lunar south pole.The Gaganyaan mission has been expected to launch from the country&s main spaceport in Sriharikota before 2024, although a schedule had not been announced.The post India completes crucial test in crewed space mission after delay first appeared on Ariana News.