The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) efficiently performed the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX) from the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Karnataka’s Chitradurga Sunday morning.

“In a first in the world, a winged body has been carried to an altitude of 4.5 km by a helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway,” the ISRO tweeted.

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According to an announcement by the house company, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) took off at 7:10am with a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as an underslung load and flew to a top of 4.5 km.

The assertion stated RLV carried out strategy and touchdown manoeuvres utilizing the built-in navigation, steerage and management system and accomplished an autonomous touchdown on the ATR airstrip at 7:40am.

“The autonomous landing was carried out under the exact conditions of a Space Re-entry vehicle’s landing —high speed, unmanned, precise landing from the same return path— as if the vehicle arrives from space,” the assertion added.

The Indian Air Force (IAF), Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC), Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), and Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) additionally contributed to the check.

What is Reusable Launch Vehicle or RLV?

According to the ISRO, RLV is basically an area aircraft with a low raise to pull ratio requiring an strategy at excessive glide angles that necessitated a touchdown at excessive velocities of 350 kmph. LEX utilized a number of indigenous methods. Localized Navigation methods primarily based on pseudolite methods, instrumentation, and sensor methods, and so on. have been developed by ISRO.