India Planning Reusable 2-Stage-to-Orbit Vehicle

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 16, 2006 @10:44AM from the the-next-space-race dept.

WoodenKnight writes "India's ISRO Chairman, G Madhavan Nair recently gave a brief description of a fully-reusable 2-stage satellite launch vehicle that is being planned at ISRO. From the article: 'This is in its initial stages of vehicle configuration and the first stage is configured as a winged body configuration, which will attain an altitude of around 100 km and deliver nearly half the orbital velocity. This stage after burnout will re-enter and will be made to land horizontally on the runway, like an aircraft. The second stage after delivering the payload in the orbit will be made to re-enter the atmosphere and will be recovered using airbags either in the sea or land. This is only in its conceptual stage.'"

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a launch a day keeps high prices away! by Thud457 · 2006-01-16 10:48 · Score: 0, Troll

The NAZIs did it why can't you dopes figure it out? The secret is to bang the rocks together guys!

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buncha rocket scientists... by Thud457 · 2006-01-16 11:02 · Score: 0, Troll

Way to crash Firefox, thanks dingus!

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