Avatar (spacecraft)

Avatar (Sanskrit: अवतार) (from "Aerobic Vehicle for Transatmospheric Hypersonic Aerospace TrAnspoRtation") is a concept study for a unmanned single-stage reusable spaceplane capable of horizontal takeoff and landing, by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation. The mission concept is for low cost military and commercial satellite space launches. No further studies or development have taken place since 2001. This spaceplane concept is unrelated to India's RLV Technology Demonstration Programme (RLV-TD).

Avatar (spacecraft)

Avatar (Sanskrit: अवतार) (from "Aerobic Vehicle for Transatmospheric Hypersonic Aerospace TrAnspoRtation") is a concept study for a unmanned single-stage reusable spaceplane capable of horizontal takeoff and landing, by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation. The mission concept is for low cost military and commercial satellite space launches. No further studies or development have taken place since 2001. This spaceplane concept is unrelated to India's RLV Technology Demonstration Programme (RLV-TD).