From our ongoing RUDRA-R1 demonstrator to the Karman-line flight that follows it, every Talisha launch exists to prove one more piece of the reusable stack — engines, autonomous landing, and the software that ties it together.
RUDRA-R1 is Talisha's vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTVL) demonstrator — a hover-capable testbed built to validate the guidance, throttling, and propulsive-landing software that every future reusable stage will fly. It exists purely to de-risk recovery before we bet a full orbital mission on it.
Each flight climbs on a single throttleable TEJAS-550 engine, holds a controlled hover, then commands a fully autonomous descent and landing on four deployable legs — refining the control software a little further with every test.
| Vehicle Height | 2.59 m / 8.5 ft |
| Diameter | 1.2 ft |
| Propellants | Bio-Kerosene (RP-1) + Liquid Oxygen |
| Engine | 1x TEJAS-550, throttleable |
| Max Hover Altitude | 1.2 km |
| Landing | 4-leg autonomous propulsive touchdown |
| Purpose | GNC & recovery software validation |
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RUDRA-R1 lifts off, holds a controlled hover, then commands a fully autonomous descent — validating the exact landing sequence a full-scale recoverable stage will fly.
Once RUDRA-R1 proves the recovery software at low altitude, RUDRA-R2 takes the same stack full scale. It's a larger, single-stage reusable rocket built to climb straight up past 100 km — the Karman line — and fly itself back down to an autonomous landing on the pad it launched from.
The purpose is entirely about proving the hard parts before they fly on an orbital mission: a full-duration burn of the flight engine at altitude, the guidance calculations that plan a safe return trajectory in real time, and an autonomous landing executed with zero manual control input from the ground.
| Target Apogee | ~100 km (Karman line) |
| Stage | Single stage, reusable |
| Engine | 2 x TEJAS-xpro, throttleable, gimbaled |
| Recovery | Autonomous propulsive landing at launch site |
| Status | In development — follows the RUDRA-R1 flight campaign |
Every landing you see on a flight was rehearsed thousands of times first — in simulation, then on hardware, in labs we built ourselves.
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