Udany test demonstratora 11.02.2015 o 13:40:00 z Kourou wystartowała RN Vega, która wyniosła w T+13' 49" na nietrwałą orbitę o parametrach:
hp=76 km, ha=416 km, i=5,4° demonstrator
IXV (Intermediate Experimental Vehicle), który następnie zwodował na spadochronie około 15:18 na Pacyfiku. Ostatni stopień rakiety AVUM wykonał o 14:11 manewr, po którym znalazł się na orbicie o parametrach: hp=220 km, ha=430 km, i=5°, a o 15:29 kolejny, w wyniku którego został zdeorbitowany i spłonął nad Oceanem Indyjskim.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n150201.htm#05IXV timelapse: preparation to liftoff9432 wyświetlenia 19 lut 2015, ESA
IXV: technologies tested20 742 wyświetlenia 3 lut 2015 European Space Agency,
IXV completes flawless mission9212 wyświetleń 24 mar 2015 European Space Agency, ESA
Udany lot eksperymentalnego statku IXV agencji ESA BY MACIEJ MICKIEWICZ ON 11 LUTEGO 2015
https://kosmonauta.net/2015/02/udany-lot-eksperymentalnego-statku-ixv-agencji-esa/European space plane flies around the world on test flightFebruary 11, 2015 Stephen Clark
Artist’s concept of the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle. Credit: ESA(...) More than 300 sensors — strain gauges, pressure and temperature instruments, accelerometers, and an infrared camera — were aboard the IXV to record data on the space plane’s test flight. The IXV transmitted the data to engineers before it splashed down.
The spacecraft’s belly is covered in black ceramic matrix thermal protection panels — made of a mixture of carbon fiber and silicon carbide — bolted to the IXV’s structure. Cork-based and silicon-based ablative light-colored materials blanket the space plane’s upper surfaces. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/11/european-space-plane-flies-around-the-world-on-test-flight/IXV Makes a Splash as ESA Spaceplane Effort Treads Waterby Peter B. de Selding — February 11, 2015
ESA’s IXV flew a flawless re-entry and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean just west of the Galapagos islands. Credit: ESATURIN, Italy – A European spaceplane technology demonstrator was successfully launched Feb. 11 on a 100-minute suborbital mission that took it into space for nearly an hour before it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean more than halfway around the world. (...)
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https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ixv.htmAVUM VV04
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/avum.htmEDIT 11.02.23
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