LVM-3X/CARE

Launch vehicle mark 3 experiment / Crew module atmospheric reentry experiment

LVM 3X was the experimental version of Geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle mark 3 of ISRO. it was launched on 18th December 2014 from Satish dhawan space center sriharikota SLP(second launch pad) with an experimental space of ISRO Gaganyaan was inside the fairings. As it was a crew module reentry experiment mission, the launch vehicle had a dummy cryogenic upper stage which made the launch vehicle to make a suborbital trajectory. the the crew module reenterd in the Earth's atmosphere facing more than 1500 degres of heat and splashed down near Andaman and nicobar islands.

CRAFT SPECS :

it have some cameras in it and staging is as same as the real one(core engines are ignited after few seconds of launch) and the crew capsule have a separate command chi but it has an issue that after switching to capsule the prograde possition becomes retrograde postion and retrograde position becomes prograde position means if you lock to prograde it will be in a retrograde position and if you lock to retrograde it will in a prograde position. The capsule have 4 engines to de-orbit (real one had 6 for orientation)