India has taken baby step towards the development as India’s first-of-its-kind ‘swadeshi’ or indigenous space satellite vehicle – RLV-TD – was launched from city Sriharikota suitated in Andhra Pradesh at 7 am sharp today.
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Demonstrator (RLV-TD) is 1.75 tons.
This project cost Rs 95 crore.
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This is the first time that Indian Space Research Organization or IS RO will fly a winged body and bring it back to land on a make-shift runway in the Bay of Bengal.
However, in further tests an undercarriage will be placed to make it land, possibly at Sriharikota.
Well this is the first time that ISRO has launched a winged flight vehicle. Dr K Sivan, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram said that “we will see how far our theoretical predictions are going to match with the real flight. Based on that we will be
able to find out what the right design is.”
He further added this data from RLV- TD’s launch is going to be used for configuring the real reusable launch vehicle.”
