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May 23 - India launched its own and first Reusable Launch Vehicle (Space
Shttle) - RLV-TD |
| Event
Name (s) |
Reusable Launch
vehicle - Technology Demonstrator |
| Date of
Event |
May 23, 2016 |
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Objective |
Exploration of Outer Space |
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Description |
- Isro successfully tested its first ever reusable
launch vehicle in Sriharikota early on May 23, 2016
morning.
- The 6.5 meter long Re-usable Launch Vehicle - Technology
Demonstrator (RLV-TD) weighs about 1.7 tons.
- The cost of this project is Rs. 95 crore.
- This is the first time Isro will fly a winged
body and bring it back to land on
make-shift runway in the Bay of Bengal.
- The vehicle in this test, however, will not be
recovered, being a ‘dummy’.
- Nasa, however, grounded its space shuttle programme in
2011 after using its reusable vehicles like Discovery,
Endeavor, Columbia and Challenger as a space transportation
system for over three decades since 1981 to launch various
missions, including the International Space Station (ISS)
and the Hubble telescope.
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