ISRO Set For Final RLV Landing Experiment:
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is putting its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) technology through a set of testing that are very important. Within a larger plan to create spacecraft that can be launched, recovered, and used again, these tests are a big part of making space trips much cheaper.
- The third and final RLV Landing Experiment (RLV LEX), which is part of ISRO’s ongoing work, is set to happen in the first half of June.
- As long as the weather is good, this test will take place at the Aeronautical Test Range in Chitradurga, Karnataka.
- This important goal has been reached by the task readiness review.
- For the RLV LEX flights, an unmanned prototype with wings is used. It is called “Pushpak.”
- The upcoming LEX-03 mission will be harder because an IAF Chinook helicopter will have to take Pushpak to a height of 4.5 km and 500 meters laterally from the runway.
- When it is let go, Pushpak has to find its way to the runway by itself, changing its direction and altitude as needed before landing.
- This mission will also try to lower the sink rate so that the effect on landing is less severe.
- A real-time kinematics (RTK) package will be used to help with this.
