India's Reusable Spaceplane Successfully Lands with Precision Accuracy

India's space agency, ISRO, successfully landed an unmanned, autonomous, indigenous spaceplane, known as RLV-TD, with pin-point accuracy on a runway in Karnataka. The spaceplane was dropped mid-air from an altitude of 4.5km by an Indian Air Force helicopter and glided down, performing autonomous navigation, guidance, and control calculations, before landing at a high speed of 350kmph. The successful landing is a step towards developing India's own reusable rocket/landing craft, with work underway to take the vehicle to orbit and then land it successfully.