India moved one step closer to owning its own reusable launch vehicle or reusable rocket with the completion of the nation’s space agency’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission on Sunday (RLV LEX).
The Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka, is where the Indian Space Agency reportedly performed a test, according to sources in Indian media.
In a statement, the Indian Space Agency stated that the use of contemporary technology developed for RLV LEX has made running rockets more cost-effective.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took to twitter to announce the development with the video of RLV LEX and wrote ‘India achieved it’.
ISRO said in a statement that, “Landing parameters such as ground relative velocity, the sink rate of landing gears, and precise body rates, as might be experienced by an orbital re-entry space vehicle in its return path, were achieved.” The autonomous landing “was carried out under the exact conditions of a space re-entry vehicle’s landing — high speed, unmanned, precise landing from the same return path — as if the vehicle arrives from space.”
The organisation added that “a winged body has been lifted to an altitude of 4.5 kilometres by helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway.
