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ISRO gears up for 1st runway landing of India-made space shuttle
ISRO officials informed that the RLV wing body will be transported by helicopter to an altitude of three to five kilometres before being released at a distance of about four to five kilometres in front of the runway with a horizontal velocity.
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India's RISAT-2 re-enters earth after 13.5 years, lands near Jakarta: ISRO
RISAT-2 was launched on 20 April 2009 by PSLV-C12 launch vehicle. It weighted only about 300 kg and landed at around 12.06 am (IST).
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No, they have not used C32 anywhere yet. They have only used C25 in all their announcements. Nor they have launched anything > 4 tonnes to GTO in all the five launches to make you believe so.
First launch was suborbital
Second and third launches were less than 3.5 tonnes GSAT-19E & 29 when C32 had neither arrived, nor was needed.
Fourth was 3.8 tonnes Chandryaan-2 to EPO (which was only sent to a perigee of 45000 kilometers, confirms there was no C32).
Fifth and upcoming 6th are just LEO missions.
So we can be sure that no C32 was used.
Qualification tests have been finished and test stand is there.
Four SCE-200 will now be produced in first batch, 3 will undergo ground tests and fourth will have actual fight, some time in 2026.
No, we don't have facility to test clustered SCE-200. New one at IPRC can only test SC120 and not 160, 200 or 400.
India won't have an HLV & SHLV before 2030 even if it works at war level now.
Methalox engine has been in development by LPSC for much longer, have tested many small and medium prototypes.
They have been built and tested a new one called LM20 recently for 20 tonnes class.
RLV is a long term demonstration program for all future RLV. So even if autonomous landing takes place in 2025, an operational landing of an Indian RLV won't take place before 2035.
Do you have any references to support this? Maybe I've never heard of this news before.
India will put PRATUSH a future radiometer in lunar orbit that will reveal the Cosmic Dawn of our Universe. Which is currently under development. PRATUSH will reveal, for the first time, the history of our infant Universe as it transformed after the Big Bang .
One more space startup which aims to use reusable launch vehicle
Indian spacetech start-up Digantara's space mapping testbed successfully launched by SpaceX mission
Indian spacetech start-up Digantara’s space mapping testbed successfully launched by SpaceX mission
Named Pushan after the Hindu solar deity which protects travellers from harm during their journeys, the testbed will gather space weather-related data in the Sun-synchronous orbit.
India's highest telescope captures comet that last came to Earth 50,000 years ago
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was photographed by astronomers using the Himalayan Chandra Telescope, which is operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru.
Plasma Helicon thrustor for Space Applications for ISRO during testing. These types of thrusters offers high specific impulse and long life time.
After ISRO Shared Satellite Images Of Sinking Joshimath, A Gag Order
The National Disaster Management Authority has barred government institutions from interacting with the media and sharing data on social media regarding ground subsidence in Joshimath.
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