ISRO set to carry out the first reusable launch vehicle runway landing experiment.
(ISRO) appears to have scheduled the maiden runway landing experiment (RLV-LEX) of the Reusable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD),
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) appears to have scheduled the maiden runway landing experiment (RLV-LEX) of the Reusable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), with its chairman S. Somanath indicating that the weather is being monitored.
“We are examining the weather. The weather is still not great. We are therefore watching for the wind and other systems to calm down. We’ll carry it out “According to Somanath, who serves as secretary for the department of space.’
According to ISRO representatives, the RLV wing body will be carried by helicopter to a height of three to five kilometers before being launched at a distance of around four to five kilometers in front of the runway with a horizontal velocity.
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At the defense airfield in Chitra Durga, the RLV will glide after being released, navigate to the runway, and land independently with landing gear.
New systems, including landing gear, parachute, hook beam assembly, radar altimeter, and pseudo lite, have reportedly been created and certified. Here is where the national space agency is situated.
The maiden RLV-TD HEX-01 (Hypersonic Flight Experiment-01) mission from SDSC SHAR was successfully completed by ISRO on May 23, 2016, showcasing the critical technologies for the creation and flight testing of re-entry vehicles.
But it was a suborbital flight with a sea landing in mind. Approach and autonomous landing on a runway is one of the crucial technologies that will be proven in the RLV-LEX mission, according to ISRO. In order to achieve end-to-end reusable launch vehicle (RLV) technology capabilities, this milestone (RLV-LEX) must be completed before the RLV ORE (Orbital Re-Entry Experiment) mission, according to ISRO officials. In ORE, a wing body called the Orbital Re-entry Vehicle (ORV) will be sent into orbit by an ascent vehicle constructed of the present GSLV and PSLV stages, stay in orbit for a predetermined period of time, re-enter the atmosphere, and land on a runway without human help.
Earlier, during a presentation on ISRO’s forthcoming missions at the Akash Tattva conference, Anil Bhardwaj, the director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, stated that the space agency also aimed to send a probe to Mars.
