New Delhi, March 22 -- In another remarkable feat for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), it achieved the successful landing experiment of the 'Pushpak' reusable launch vehicle at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Chitradurga, Karnataka, on Friday morning. This accomplishment marks the second phase of the RLV LEX-02 landing experiment series following the previous RLV-LEX-01 conducted last year.

The ISRO stated that the RLV was tasked with executing more challenging maneuvers involving dispersions, correcting both cross-range and downrange factors, and achieving a fully autonomous landing on the runway. The winged vehicle, Pushpak, was hoisted by an Indian Air Force Chinook helicopter and released from an altitude of 4.5 km...