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IXV: learning to come back from Space

ESApod, audio and video from space by ESA Web Portal Staff

Nov 5, 200800:03:29Science & Medicine

After being launched into space, the IXV - or Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle - will return to earth as if from a low-Earth orbit mission, testing brand-new European atmospheric re-entry technologies during its hyperso...

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