{"id":21795,"date":"2024-03-23T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21795"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:05:20","slug":"reusable-landing-vehicle-rlv-lex-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/reusable-landing-vehicle-rlv-lex-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Reusable Landing Vehicle (RLV) LEX 02"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Reusable Landing Vehicle (RLV) LEX 02<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This landing experiment is\u00a0the second of the series conducted at Aeronautical Test Range.<\/li>\n<li>After the RLV-LEX-01 mission was accomplished last year, RLV-LEX-02 demonstrated the autonomous landing capability of reusable launch vehicle (RLV) from off-nominal initial conditions at release from helicopter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How was the experiment conducted?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The RLV LEX-02 mission demonstrated\u00a0the autonomous landing capability of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/reusable-launch-vehicle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>reusable launch vehicle<\/u><\/a> from challenging initial conditions after release from a helicopter.<\/li>\n<li>It is named Pushpak, the winged vehicle was lifted by an Indian Air Force Chinook helicopter and released from an altitude of 4.5 km.<\/li>\n<li>It autonomously approached the runway with cross-range corrections and landed precisely, coming to a halt using its brake parachute, landing gear brakes, and nose wheel steering system<\/li>\n<li>The winged body and all flight\u00a0systems used in RLV-LEX-01 were reused in the RLV-LEX-02 mission after due certification\/ clearances.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The mission was accomplished by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/vikram-sarabhai\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Vikram Sarabhai<\/u><\/a> Space Centre (VSSC) along with the\u00a0Liquid Propulsion System Centre (LPSC) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/isro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>ISRO<\/u><\/a> Inertial Systems Unit (IISU).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Reusable Launch Vehicle<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is essentially a space\u00a0plane with a low lift to drag ratio requiring an approach at high glide angles that necessitates a landing at high velocities of 350 kmph.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It utilises several indigenous systems. Localised navigation systems based on pseudolite systems, instrumentation, and sensor systems, etc were developed by ISRO.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD)?<\/h3>\n<p>RLV-TD Programme is envisioned as a series of technology demonstration missions that serve towards realising a fully reusable Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/isro-successfully-conducts-pushpak-reusable-landing-vehicle-landing-experiment\/article67979052.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ISRO successfully conducts \u2018Pushpak\u2019 Reusable Landing Vehicle landing experiment<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reusable Landing Vehicle (RLV) LEX 02  experiment is the second of the series conducted at Aeronautical Test Range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}