TNPSC Thervupettagam

Reusable Launch Vehicle Mission

April 8 , 2023 599 days 547 0
  • The ISRO in collaboration with the IAF and DRDO successfully conducted the RLV autonomous landing mission (RLV LEX) at Chitradurga, Karnataka.
  • This test was the second of five tests that are a part of ISRO’s efforts to develop RLVs, or spaceplanes/shuttles.
  • It can travel to low earth orbits to deliver payloads and return to earth for use again.
  • The first test with RLV-TD (HEX1) involved the vehicle landing on a hypothetical runway over the Bay of Bengal.
  • While the 2nd LEX experiment involved a precise landing on a runway.
  • Three more experiments — return flight experiment (REX), powered cruise flight, and Scramjet Propulsion Experiment (SPEX) — have to be conducted.

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