ISRO Successfully Carried Out Landing Of Its Reusable Launch Vehicle Pushpak

The Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO has successfully carried out the landing of its Reusable Launch Vehicle Pushpak this morning at the ATR Chitradurga in Karnataka. A message on social media site X, says ‘ISRO nails it again’ signifying the precise landing of the winged launch vehicle RLV in autonomous mode. ISRO Chairman S Somanath has congratulated the team for the flawless execution of maneuvering, landing and energy management of the spaceship in a fully autonomous mode. The ISRO said, the mission successfully simulated the approach and high-speed landing conditions of an RLV returning from space.

With the RLV-LEX-02, ISRO has re-validated its indigenously developed technologies in areas such as navigation, control systems, landing gear, and deceleration systems, which are essential for performing a high-speed autonomous landing of a space-returning vehicle”. In this second test on the Launch Vehicle, ISRO successfully tested the brake parachute, landing gear brakes, nose wheel steering system, on board navigation hardware and software and its capability to withstand conditions created by high velocity landing.