India is working to become a member of the space plane club.
India has for the first time autonomously landed its reusable space plane prototype, marking a major milestone in the country's pursuit of low-cost access to space., India’s national space agency, announced that it had completed the second of four experiments designed to get its robotic Reusable Launch Vehicle space-ready.
The latest experiment — Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission — was carried out in a test facility owned by the country’s Defence Research and Development Organisation in Karnataka, a state in southern India. As part of the mission, the 21-foot-long was airlifted by a Chinook helicopter, flown by the Indian Air Force, to an altitude of 2.8 miles and released mid-air at 7:10 am local Indian time .
Then, the space plane, a miniature vehicle that is still being developed, demonstrated its ability to perform a series of approach and landing maneuvers that helped it touch down safely 30 minutes later, at 7:40 am local time in India on the runway operated by the same test facility.
The conditions assessed in this test, like the space plane's high landing speed of 217 mph , are similar to what a launch vehicle re-enteringThis test is the second of four experiments dedicated to honing various aspects of the reusable launch vehicle. The first test, the Hypersonic Flight Experiment , was performed in May 2016. At the time, ISRO had
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