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ISRO gears up for 1st runway landing of
India-made space shuttle
Image Credit: ISRO
ISRO is all set for the first runway landing Chitradurga. According to earlier reports,
experiment (RLV-LEX) of the Reusable new systems like landing gear, parachute,
Launch Vehicle - Technology Demonstrator hook beam assembly, radar altimeter, and
(RLV-TD). ISRO officials informed that the pseudolite have been developed and
RLV wing body will be transported by certified. The national space agency is
helicopter to an altitude of three to five based here. However, it was a suborbital
kilometres before being released at a flight and designed to land on sea. One of
distance of about four to five kilometres in the critical technologies to be demonstrated
front of the runway with a horizontal velocity. in the RLV-LEX mission is approach and
The Indian Space Research Organization autonomous landing on a runway, according
(ISRO) is all set for the first runway landing to ISRO. According to ISRO officials, this
experiment (RLV-LEX) of the Reusable milestone (RLV-LEX) needs to be
Launch Vehicle - Technology Demonstrator accomplished before the RLV ORE (Orbital
(RLV-TD), with its chairman S. Somanath Re-Entry Experiment) mission in order to
indicating that the weather is being acquire end-to-end reusable launch vehicle
monitored. "We are looking at the climate. (RLV) technology capability. In ORE, a wing
Climate is still not good. So, we are waiting body known as the Orbital Re-entry Vehicle
for the wind and other systems to become (ORV) will be launched into orbit by an
begin. We will do that," Somanath, also ascent vehicle made of the current GSLV
Secretary in the Department of Space, told and PSLV stages, remain in orbit for a
PTI. The RLV wing body will be transported predetermined amount of time, re-enter the
by helicopter to an altitude of three to five atmosphere, and land on a runway without
kilometres before being released at a human assistance. Earlier, Anil Bhardwaj,
distance of about four to five kilometres in the director of the Physical Research
front of the runway with a horizontal velocity, Laboratory in Ahmedabad, said during a
according to ISRO officials. The RLV will presentation on ISRO's upcoming missions
glide after being released, navigate to the at the Akash Tattva conference that the
runway, and land independently with landing space agency also intended to send a probe
gear at the defence airfield close to to Mars.
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