After IXV separates from Vega, around 18 minutes after launch, experts not only in French Guiana but also in Europe, Africa and on a recovery ship in the Pacific will be responsible for the ...

The IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, installed on its payload adapter, is being prepared for launch, at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 27 January 2015.

European Space Agency's IXV Space Plane Prototype completed its suborbital flight and was recovered from the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11, 2015. Here, ESA personnel celebrate at Europe's Spaceport in ...

The IXV is an Italian-led project within Esa. The vehicle is 5m long and and weighs almost two tonnes Europe is all set to launch its mini "spaceplane" demonstrator. The unmanned Intermediate ...

The IXV is a project of the European Space Agency that aims to develop an autonomous atmospheric re-entry system. A flight model will be launched on a Vega rocket next year and will have to ...

Europe is all set to launch its mini "spaceplane" demonstrator. The unmanned Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) will launch atop a Vega rocket from South America, fly east around the globe ...

The IXV model was recovered from the sea after its splashdown on a parachute A successful "drop test" has been conducted on Europe's experimental re-entry vehicle, the IXV. A 1:1 scale model was ...

Giorgio Tumino, IXV Programme Manager, runs the project: “The objective of the mission of the IXV is to master all those grey areas that we don’t know about atmospheric re-entry,” he says.