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Offline bolun

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #400 on: 03/27/2015 03:20 pm »
Recovered IXV docks in Italy

ESA’s recovered IXV spaceplane arrived at the Port of Livorno in Italy on 26 March 2015 and will be taken to Turin for final analysis.

Hardware will be removed for engineers to evaluate the reusability of components and the effects of heat, pressure and shock during the mission.

The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, was launched on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 11 February 2015. Released into a suborbital trajectory, it flew autonomously, reentering and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean after 100 minutes.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/03/Recovered_IXV_docks_in_Italy

Related article:

- ESA's spaceplane back on dry land

- http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Launchers/IXV/ESA_s_spaceplane_back_on_dry_land

Image credit: ESA
« Last Edit: 03/27/2015 08:03 pm by bolun »

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #401 on: 03/27/2015 03:45 pm »
The dreamer side of me would love to see the grown up version of the this docked to a Bigelow station.

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #402 on: 05/31/2015 04:40 pm »
Next Saturday  IXV can be seen in Belgium.
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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #403 on: 06/16/2015 06:27 pm »
http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2015/06/Replay_of_IXV_conference

press conference at the Paris Air Show on the first results from ESA's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV). After a perfect mission on 11 February 2015, IXV travelled from the splashdown site in the Pacific Ocean just west of the Galapagos islands, to Le Bourget. In the five months since the mission, the initial analysis has been completed and the team unveiled the first results.
Jacques :-)

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #404 on: 08/23/2015 03:40 pm »
Came across this (old) article today.

http://www.futura-sciences.com/magazines/espace/infos/actu/d/ixv-ixv-mini-navette-europeenne-bien-vecu-son-vol-historique-59024/

I don't like feel like translating it all, only the surprises: Temperatures were lower than expected, 1150° instead of 1400°. It unexpectedly ran out of fuel, but it was able to stay on the planned trajectory with help of the flaps.

Attached are 2 possible PRIDE configurations under study. If I understand correctly, the one on the left would land with a parafoil, the one on the right with wings, obviously.
« Last Edit: 08/23/2015 03:40 pm by Oli »

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #405 on: 09/24/2015 06:29 am »
IXV deck (  posted in wrong thread originally )

http://www.maia.ub.es/~gerard/AstroNet-II/IFC/Mariano_Sanchez.pdf

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #406 on: 09/25/2015 05:48 am »
Came across this (old) article today.

http://www.futura-sciences.com/magazines/espace/infos/actu/d/ixv-ixv-mini-navette-europeenne-bien-vecu-son-vol-historique-59024/

I don't like feel like translating it all, only the surprises: Temperatures were lower than expected, 1150° instead of 1400°. It unexpectedly ran out of fuel, but it was able to stay on the planned trajectory with help of the flaps.

The outside temperatures may have been less than anticipated, but if that is the case then amount the side panels ablated would seem to be concerning. (the black areas on the sides, above the bottom shield, in the pictures below)

But perhaps it was designed to do exactly this. Still, it does look like significant erosion.

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #407 on: 02/11/2016 12:02 pm »
First anniversary of the IXV flight today.

I've been trying to find out status of the PRIDE follow on programme.This article (from June 2015) http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Launchers/IXV/ESA_spaceplane_on_display/(print) says:

IXV results will help the Programme for Reusable In-orbit Demonstrator for Europe – Pride – take the next step with limited risk and financial effort for Europe.
 
Now that the results from IXV’s flight are becoming available, Pride’s mission and system definition is ready to begin, along with early readiness of critical technologies. Those results will be submitted for approval at ESA’s next Council Meeting at Ministerial level in 2016.


I believe the Ministerial meeting is in November.

[Minor edit to correct typos]
« Last Edit: 02/15/2016 11:31 am by AlexA »

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #408 on: 02/11/2016 05:17 pm »
First anniversary of the IXV flight today.

I've beeing trying to find out status if the PRIDE follow on programme.This article (from June 2015) http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Launchers/IXV/ESA_spaceplane_on_display/(print) says:

IXV results will help the Programme for Reusable In-orbit Demonstrator for Europe – Pride – take the next step with limited risk and financial effort for Europe.
 
Now that the results from IXV’s flight are becoming available, Pride’s mission and system definition is ready to begin, along with early readiness of critical technologies. Those results will be submitted for approval at ESA’s next Council Meeting at Ministerial level in 2016.


I believe the Ministerial meeting is in November.
Yes, but there is an update on Pride NET June 10th before the November meeting

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #409 on: 02/11/2016 10:07 pm »
So the meeting about the PRIDE project that was planned for the end of last year (december) was postponed to June?
Or did they decide at the meeting to take a decision NET June?

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #410 on: 02/11/2016 10:26 pm »
So the meeting about the PRIDE project that was planned for the end of last year (december) was postponed to June?
Or did they decide at the meeting to take a decision NET June?
according to an email I received there will be more detailed information released from a meeting NET June 2016 ahead November. June meeting will complete what will be provided at the council meeting. the meeting was added after last one.
« Last Edit: 02/11/2016 10:27 pm by russianhalo117 »

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #411 on: 07/13/2016 01:57 am »
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New one on me. @esa's forthcoming #PRIDE re-usable space plane now called "Space Rider". Successor to IXV vehicle
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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #412 on: 11/18/2016 03:56 pm »

A presentation on Space Rider.

Landing with parafoil.

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #413 on: 11/18/2016 05:49 pm »
Jonathan Amos
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New one on me. @esa's forthcoming #PRIDE re-usable space plane now called "Space Rider". Successor to IXV vehicle
http://www.ukspace.org/news-item/bedfordshire-business-to-work-on-pioneering-european-spacecraft/
http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/news/press-releases/2016-press-releases/work-begins-on-pioneering-european-spacecraft.html
First orbital flight now targeted for 2020 according to LM UK. Space Rider depending upon payload and desired orbit will launch on either an Vega-C (Baseline for LEO and SSO) or an Ariane-62 (all orbits).

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Re: Vega flight VV04 - IXV - February 11, 2015
« Reply #415 on: 10/04/2021 01:13 pm »
Not sure what the auction mentioned above resulted in, but today the IXV continues to be in Turin's international airport's departures hall, a few kilometers away from its birthplace in TAS, as it has been since 2017.

Pictures taken by me a couple of weeks ago.


Yes you can touch it, yes the thrusters and TPS appear to be the real deal in all cases, yes it's dusty.
« Last Edit: 10/04/2021 01:15 pm by eeergo »
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