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The Reusable Launch Vehicle Landing Experiment or RLV-LEX was the second test flight in the RLV Technology Demonstration Programme following the Hypersonic Flight Experiment. The demonstration trials will pave the way for the two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) fully reusable launch vehicle.
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The Avatar concept study was commissioned by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation in 2001. [2] India's Space Agency ISRO has no connection with the project. [4] [5] [6] Air Commodore Raghavan Gopalaswami, who headed the study, made a presentation on the spaceplane at the global conference on propulsion at Salt Lake City, United States on July 10, 2001.
DragonFly was a prototype test article for a propulsively landed version of the SpaceX Dragon capsule, a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV), intended for low-altitude flight testing. As of May 2014 it was planned to undergo a test program in Texas at the McGregor Rocket Test Facility, during 2014–2015. [32] [105] [needs update]
The Space Shuttle orbiter, SpaceShipTwo, Dawn Mk-II Aurora, and the under-development Indian RLV-TD are examples for a reusable space vehicle (a spaceplane) as well as a part of its launch system. More contemporarily the Falcon 9 launch system has carried reusable vehicles such as the Dragon 2 and X-37 .
More than a decade after starting the Cryogenic Upper Stage Project in 1994, [17] ISRO began developing a new semi-cryogenic engine that would be used on its next generation of vehicles of Unified Launch Vehicle (now NGLV), Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) and a heavy-lift launcher for future inter-planetary missions.
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The Phoenix RLV launcher, the prototype of the Hopper launcher, was announced by DASA in June 1999 [9] to be developed and produced as a portion of the wider ASTRA program of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), a €40 million project founded by the German Federal Government, EADS' Astrium subsidiary and the state of Bremen. Reportedly, EADS and ...