India’s shuttle-like reusable spaceplane makes its first test flight;
Innovative launcher will also eventually feature scramjet technology.:

"For the last several years, India has been making steady progress with its space
program, including the successful insertion of a spacecraft into Mars orbit in
2014, something previously only the United States, Soviet Union, and the European
Space Agency had accomplished. Now the second-most populous country in the world
has taken its first significant step toward developing a reusable launch vehicle.

On Monday, the country's space program launched a winged body aerospace vehicle
on its maiden test flight from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the east coast
of India. The Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, declared the test
flight a success."

See:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/...t-test-flight/