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India recently completed a series of tests aimed at demonstrating homegrown technology for autonomously landing its reusable launch vehicle, agency officials said in a recent news release.
The Indian Space Research Organisation conducted the third and final RLV-LEX-03 landing experiment with its prototype space plane on June 23, 2024 at the Aeronautical Test Range in Karnataka.The final test was led by the Kerala-based Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre , which in 2020 was directed to boost its launch-vehicle development to— ISRO said it strengthened Pushpak's mechanical structures and landing gear so that the space plane could tolerate higher landing speeds.
"The in-built systems performed their roles perfectly and ensured that the plane could make its third consecutive landing on the runway centerline," Unnikrishnan Nair, an aerospace engineer and the director of VSSC, told."From an initial 500 meters distance from the runway centerline, the plane was finally at 11 cm or 0.1 meter from the runway centerline."
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