Key Points
ISRO, joined by@DRDO_India @IAF_MCC, successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX) at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka in the early hours on April 2, 2023...
According to ISRO, the RLV took off at 7.10 am as an underslung load of a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force and flew to a height of 4.5 km..
The autonomous landing was carried out under the exact conditions of Space Re-entry vehicles landing (such as) high speed, unmanned, precise landing from the same return path as if the vehicle arrived from space, the release said...
Localized Navigation systems based on pseudolite systems, instrumentation and sensor systems, etc were developed by ISRO Adaptation of contemporary technologies developed for RLV LEX turns other operational launch vehicles of ISRO more cost-effective, according to the space agency...
The LEX mission achieved the final approach phase that coincided with the re-entry flight path exhibiting an autonomous, high-speed (350 kmph) landing, ISRO said...
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