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Reusable Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) flight tested by ISRO

By Swati Deshpande,

Added 23 May 2016

ISRO has successfully flight tested India’s first winged body aerospace vehicle operating in hypersonic flight regime.

After successfully surviving high temperatures of re-entry with the help of its Thermal Protection System (TPS), RLV-TD successfully glided down to the defined landing spot over Bay of Bengal, at a distance of about 450 km from Sriharikota, thereby fulfilling its mission objectives.

Total flight duration from launch to landing of this mission of the delta winged RLV-TD, lasted for about 770 seconds.

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