Chennai, April 15 -- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has
commissioned a state-of-the-art Landing Gear Drop Test Facility at Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, towards testing and
qualification of the deployable Landing Gear system for ISRO's winged body
Reusable Launch Vehicle - Pushpak.
ISRO is developing Pushpak with a deployable Landing Gear towards the
RLV-Orbital Re-entry Experiment (RLV-OREX), wherein the Pushpak vehicle
will be launched to orbit in an ascent vehicle.
Subsequently, after a few orbits, Pushpak will re-enter the atmosphere and
land on a runway using the deployable Landing Gear system, ISRO said on
Tuesday in an update.
The Landing Gear Drop Test facility was inaugurated b...