ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicles

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Didn't see any close-up footage of the launch. Maybe videos or pictures will pilfer later.
 

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Congrats all, ISRO you make us proud, make great video and show off and second thing, make this in 5 years to be used for human flight.

Fire up the imagination of entire nation. Lets take challenge to next level.

Great going..........
 

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:biggrin2:You play with words...btw, what difference does it make?
Shelved means it won't be revived and cancelled forever.
Putting on hold means work has stopped for some time because of other priority for some time.
GSLv Mk3 was also put on hold because of Mangalyaan, and you can see it wasn't cancelled. :D
 

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News Nation is reporting on it but not with original footage. However it was not meant to land but to crash land on water.

Congrats to ISRO and all Indians.:india:
 

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As 'The Hindu' reported today, the real thing will take another 10-15 years to evolve. A long way off....
 

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As 'The Hindu' reported today, the real thing will take another 10-15 years to evolve. A long way off....
They have to find way to cut short time to 5 years. We have all the tech and knowledge, specially all the building blocks.

Best part: Three projects on similar tech going on.
1. ISRO: RLV
2. DRDI: HSTDV
3. Brahmos: Brahmos hypersonic.

So, its bound to cut short time.

Lets celibrate sucess today.....
 

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'Mission Accomplished' As Swadeshi Space Shuttle Tests: 10 Facts

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-all-set-to-launch-its-own-space-shuttle-today-1408943

SRIHARIKOTA: India successfully tested its first-ever swadeshi or indigenous space shuttle today as its scale model - the Re-Usable Launch Vehicle - Technology Demonstrator or RLV-TD - was launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 7 am. Nearly 20 minutes after its lift-off, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced, "mission accomplished".
Here are 10 must-know facts about the big launch:

  1. The 6.5 metre-long scale model of the re-usable launch vehicle weighs about 1.75 tonnes and was made at a cost of Rs. 95 crore. It was built at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram by a team of 600 scientists over five years.
  2. Re-usable technology aims to help reduce the cost of launching objects into space by 10 times. It costs about $ 20,000 to send a kilogram in space currently.
  3. Indian Space Research Organization or ISRO plans to test two more such prototypes before the final version which will be about six times larger at around 40 metres and will take off around 2030.
  4. After the test flight was declared successful, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated scientists at ISRO and tweeted: “Launch of India's first indigenous space shuttle RLV-TD is the result of the industrious efforts of our scientists. Congrats to them.”
  5. The spacecraft was launched atop a nine-ton solid rocket engine that has been designed to burn slowly to accommodate the vertical lifting of a winged body.
  6. After the launch, the space shuttle flew to an altitude of 70 kilometres and then engaged in a free-gliding flight that started with an initial velocity five times that of sound. It then landed on a stretch of water in the Bay of Bengal some 500 kilometres from Sriharikota.
  7. This was the first time that ISRO flew a winged body and brought it back to land on a make-shift runway. In further tests, an undercarriage will be placed to make it land, possibly at Sriharikota.
  8. The final RLV will be about 40 meters in length and will also be able carry Indian astronauts. On this first flight, the RLV-TD will not be recovered but the data collected will be used to improve the designs, paving the runway to the final model.
  9. No other country is currently operationally flying a winged spacecraft into space - the Americans retired their space shuttles in 2011 and the Russians flew theirs only once in 1989.
  10. In a race to master re-usable technology for space shuttles, the RLV will be pitted against the likes of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Blue Origin's New Shephard rocket - both the companies have already partially tested re-usable space shuttles.
 

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