'The dream of an Indian Reusable Launch Vehicle is one step closer to reality.'
India's space agency added that its experiment was a world first, as a winged body had never been carried to an altitude of 4.5 km by helicopter before being released for an autonomous landing.
"With that, ISRO successfully achieved the autonomous landing of a space vehicle," ISRO said. "With LEX, the dream of an Indian Reusable Launch Vehicle arrives one step closer to reality."The configuration of RLV-TD is similar to that of an aircraft, and it was developed to test several technologies, including hypersonic flight. It features twin vertical tails and double delta wings, making it somewhat resemble a mini Space Shuttle.
“The winged RLV-TD has been configured to act as a flying test bed to evaluate various technologies, namely, hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, and powered cruise flight. In the future, this vehicle will be scaled up to become the first stage of India’s reusable two-stage orbital launch vehicle,” ISRO said in its statement.ISRO also performed a successful flight test of RLV-TD back in 2016.
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