{"id":56023,"date":"2025-07-21T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=56023"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:08:41","slug":"invictus-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/invictus-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Invictus Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Invictus Programme Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the European Space Agency (ESA) and UK-based Frazer-Nash have kicked off the INVICTUS research programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Invictus Programme<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a research programme <\/span><b>with the goal of developing hypersonic technologies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> applicable to future reusable vehicles capable of horizontal launch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Funding:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is funded through ESA\u2019s <\/span><b>General Support Technology Programme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (GSTP) and Technology Development Element (TDE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a fully <\/span><b>reusable experimental aerospace<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> vehicle capable of flying at Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vehicle will demonstrate key technologies for <\/span><b>sustained hypersonic flight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the atmosphere and will be upgradable, allowing for the exchange of materials, software and propulsion systems between flight test campaigns.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INVICTUS builds on previous technology developments managed by ESA and will offer industry, agencies and academia an opportunity to test future hypersonic technologies in a relevant environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The INVICTUS programme will prove the<\/span><b> suitability of a hydrogen-fuelled precooled air-breathing propulsion <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">system for horizontal take-off and hypersonic flight.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Shaping_the_Future\/INVICTUS_Europe_s_new_hypersonic_test_platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>ESA<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invictus is a research programme with the goal of developing hypersonic technologies applicable to future reusable vehicles capable of horizontal launch. Read more about Invictus Programme, Funding, Significance, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":56033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1694,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-56023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-invictus-programme","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56023","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}