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Recently, ISRO tested the Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator system to recover spent rocket stages.
Key Points:
About Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD):
- Developed by: ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
- How it Works:
- The IAD serves to decelerate an object plunging down through the atmosphere.
- It systematically reduced the velocity of the payload through aerodynamic drag.
- Once the IAD fell into the sea, it deflated by firing a deflation pyro valve.
- Significance:
- It could aid the cost-effective recovery of spent rocket stages.
- safely land payloads on other planets.
- Making space habitats for human space flight missions.
