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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    Check in the ISRO thread . There was detailed update a few days back.
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    Its not about ground testing or how good ISROs safety standards are. Its about how to deal with the inevitable crashes that will happen during landing attempts. This is what a crashed hypergolic rocket looks like .. notice the yellow smoke. Most of those poor cheens will be having breathing...
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    No clue .. It is just a concern that I have . Atleast if a LOX / Kerosene /Hydrogen rocket crashes . It will harmlessly dissipate.. Not so for the UDMH and N204 combo.
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    The fuel that Vikar uses is called the devils venom . If you breath it in the nitrous compounds will react with the moisture in your lungs and form HNO3 .. which will in turn dissolve your lungs. The safety aspect is not less for the vikas.
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    Really ? Ive never seen a cost quote of the ce 200 vs vikas ? Have it handy ?
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    Actually the ce 200 is a good candidate for vertical landing tests. They would have a far fewer safety headaches with that one.
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    Totally unpowered . This is all about finally flying back from orbit and landing on a runway. The full scale version of whatever the RLV TD represents is a mystery.
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    Not sure what kind of containment feature is possible . Say the testbed drifts outside the landing zone and they self destruct it now you got a large area showered with a hazardous chemicals.
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    I a bit concerned that Vikas is being used in vertical landing test.. The vikas uses hypergolic fuels.. which are very poisonous.. We can expect some crashes.. Unlike the kerlox and methalox , the UDMH as well as N2O4 are poisonous.
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    I remember seeing line drawings of this . Brilliant concept, very efficient. But isn't the RLV also in development? Only subscale has been fabricated right with no runway landing proven yet
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    ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

    There is some confusion between the AVATAR and the two stage to orbit concept . The two stage to orbit concept is the more realistic one . RLV TD is just a test bed (its right in the name) . It is to deal with hypersonic flight and recovering objects as they exit hypersonic flight . The full...
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