{"id":26386,"date":"2016-05-23T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T07:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=26386"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T08:44:02","slug":"isros-space-shuttle-mission-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/isros-space-shuttle-mission-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO&#8217;s Space Shuttle Mission A Success! Here&#8217;s How VSSC Trivandrum Made India&#8217;s 1st Re-usable Space Shuttle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, ISRO successfully tested it\u2019s first-ever swadeshi space shuttle &#8211; Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 7 am. Nearly 20 minutes after its lift-off, the ISRO announced, &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly 20 minutes after its lift-off, the ISRO announced, &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reusable space craft was launched from Sriharikota at 7 am today, with the help of nine-ton solid rocket engine. After the launch, the space shuttle went to an altitude of 70 kilometres and then engaged in a free-gliding flight that started with an initial velocity 5 times that of sound. Later it was landed on a virtual runway in the Bay of Bengal some 500 kilometres from Sriharikota.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coming Soon ISRO&#039;s Swadeshi Space Shuttle\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hur59EyJ98c?start=12&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was here in Trivandrum that India&#8217;s very own space shuttle was conceived and nurtured by ISRO. The project began more than a decade ago at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Trivandrum &#8211; India&#8217;s main rocket designing and fabrication laboratory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26388\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26388\" class=\"wp-image-26388 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/isro-space-shuttle-2_650x400_61463829076.jpg\" alt=\"Re-Usable Space Shuttle, Source: NDTV\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Re-Usable Space Shuttle, Source: NDTV<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Re-usable space shuttle is\u00a0the result of the efforts of more than 600 scientists over the last five years to bring India one of its most extraordinary milestones in space exploration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0It was built at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Trivandrum by a team of 600 scientists over five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shyam Mohan, Project Director on the RLV, says he and his team spent countless hours over the years to make this project a reality.\u00a0 &#8220;It was a dream come true as making a re-usable launch vehicle is a complex and challenging task,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26387\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26387\" class=\"wp-image-26387 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/indian-space-shuttle-2_650x400_51463829311.jpg\" alt=\"ISRO Engineers with RLV, Source: NDTV\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ISRO Engineers with RLV, Source: NDTV<\/p><\/div>\n<p>K Sivan, director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, said, &#8220;These are just the first baby steps towards the big Hanuman leap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26397 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/13237783_721052738036126_2405050187544322019_n.jpg\" alt=\"RLVTD\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 6.5 metre-long scale model of the re-usable launch vehicle weighs about 1.75 tonnes and has been made at a cost of Rs. 95 crore.<\/p>\n<p>On this first flight, the RLV-TD will not be recovered but the data collected will be used to improve the designs, paving the runway to the final model<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, ISRO successfully tested it\u2019s first-ever swadeshi space shuttle &#8211; Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 7 am. Nearly 20 minutes after its lift-off, the ISRO announced, &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221;. Nearly 20 minutes after its lift-off, the ISRO announced, &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221;. The reusable space craft was launched from Sriharikota at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[391,452],"class_list":["post-26386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-isro","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26386"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26398,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386\/revisions\/26398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}