The Indian Space Research Organisation’s efforts along with its partners to develop a fully reusable launch vehicle which will allow low-cost access to space took a step forward with demonstration of its precise landing experiment.
The experiment for the Reusable Launch Vehicle was conducted at Karnataka’s Aeronautical Test Range located in Chitradurga yesterday.
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RLV's autonomous approach and landing pic.twitter.com/D4tDmk5VN5
— ISRO (@isro) April 2, 2023
The Indian Air Force’s Chinook helicopter took the RLV as an underslung load and flew to a height of 4.5 kilometres and released it mid-air at a range of 4.6 kilometres.
Incidentally, the helicopter was headed by a woman officer who is a Flight Test Engineer at Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment.
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Reaching for the stars, together with @isro
The IAF's trial team which participated in today's successful Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX) at Chitradurga was headed by an #IAF woman officer who is a Flight Test Engineer at ASTE.#NaariShakti@IAFTPS pic.twitter.com/WE7cDrvI2M
— Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) April 2, 2023
The successful testing of RLV has been a joint effort of ISRO, Defence Research and Development Organisation and IAF.
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ISRO, DRDO, IAF Jointly Conducted RLV Test@isro @DRDO_India and @IAF_MCC conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX) successfully from Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga, Karnataka this morning.
Date : April 2, 2023 pic.twitter.com/HWfMHqIvLJ
— News IADN (@NewsIADN) April 2, 2023
