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Watch: ISRO’s successful reusable launch vehicle test

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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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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The successful testing of RLV has been a joint effort of ISRO, Defence Research and Development Organisation and IAF.

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IN Bureau

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