India’s Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV)
INDIAN RLV ISRO had successfully tested the India’s first reusable launch vehicle, on 23 march 2016. During the flight critical technologies were used and experimented like, Autonomous navigation system, thermal protection, re-entry mission program, and all was successfully tested. India have its own launchers under use as, 1- SLV 2- ASLV 3- PSLV 4- GSLV 5- LVM or GSLV mark 3 ( FUTURE) The RLV is program under which the travelling to space will be cheap to an extent, and it will be reliable too and gives on demand access to space. The vehicle was tested to survive a re entry at very high speed, the program had taken about 5 years to complete, and sum of about 95 crore rupees to complete. On 23 march the 10 minute test was successful, the plane had also landed in bay of Bengal, the mission was a feat for ISRO. It was conducted on the RLV TD which means Technological demonstrator, which was liftoff to 70 km upward and than descented and landed in bay of Bengal, where it disintegrate