{"id":220380,"date":"2014-06-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"da924c127ee315071e5f01fa6a171862"},"modified":"2014-06-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:00:00","slug":"ixv-during-the-last-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220380","title":{"rendered":"IXV during the last preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/06\/ixv_during_the_last_preparations6\/14587661-2-eng-GB\/IXV_during_the_last_preparations_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) flight model during the last preparations, on 20 June 2014, at Thales Alenia Space, Torino, Italy, before being delivered to ESA\u2019s ESTEC center in the Netherlands, where it will undergo final testing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt will be launched by ESA in 2014 on Vega, Europe\u2019s new small launcher, into a suborbital path, from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. It will reenter the atmosphere as if from a low-orbit mission, testing new European reentry technologies during its hypersonic and supersonic flight phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/06\/ixv_during_the_last_preparations6\/14587661-2-eng-GB\/IXV_during_the_last_preparations_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) flight model during the last preparations, on 20 June 2014, at Thales Alenia Space, Torino, Italy, before being delivered to ESA\u2019s ESTEC center in the Netherlands, where it will undergo final testing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt will be launched by ESA in 2014 on Vega, Europe\u2019s new small launcher, into a suborbital path, from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. It will reenter the atmosphere as if from a low-orbit mission, testing new European reentry technologies during its hypersonic and supersonic flight phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}