User:Gaurav Pruthi/Landing Experiment

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Landing Experiment
Mission typeTest flight
OperatorISRO
Mission duration2 minutes
Start of mission
Launch dateJune, 2016
Launch siteSatish Dhawan FLP
End of mission
Landing siteBay of Bengal
 


Landing Experiment or LEX will be the second test flight as a part of RLV-TD program undertaken by ISRO to realize two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable space vehicle. The planned date of LEX is June, 2016.[1]

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Model of RLV-TD launch arrangement
  • First stage: live, 9 ton solid booster (S-9)
  • Second stage: dummy (scramjet will be used in the future)

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  1. ^ a b "LEX launch date". spacesciencefacts.com. Retrieved May 23, 2016.


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