Which of these missions will put India among the select few nations having technology for reusable launch vehicles?
RLV-LEX
RLV-LEX is correct.
RLV-LEX is ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Experiment. In the first test (April 2023) at the Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga, a winged RLV was dropped from a Chinook helicopter and landed autonomously on a runway; follow-up tests RLV-LEX-02 (March 2024) and RLV-LEX-03 (June 2024) repeated the landing under tougher conditions.
Mastering the autonomous landing of a winged body is a key step towards a reusable space plane, placing India among the few nations developing reusable launch vehicle technology.
SPOT-7 is a French Earth-observation satellite launched by PSLV-C23, PSLV-C58 (January 2024) carried the XPoSat X-ray astronomy satellite, and RISAT-2 is a radar imaging satellite; none of these tests reusable launch technology.
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