{"id":220444,"date":"2014-07-02T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"4d9477303ff0dae1d86be08009382a3e"},"modified":"2014-07-02T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T06:25:00","slug":"unboxing-ixv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220444","title":{"rendered":"Unboxing IXV"},"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\/07\/unboxing_ixv\/14601943-7-eng-GB\/Unboxing_IXV_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe moment when ESA\u2019s IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is removed from its protective container, safely inside the cleanroom environment of the Agency\u2019s Technical Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV\u2019s sleek lifting body hull gives a clue to its purpose: this November it will be launched 320 km into space on top of a Vega rocket, climbing up to 420 km before beginning a long glide back through the atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the process, IXV will gather data on reentry conditions to help guide the design of future spaceplanes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV arrived at ESTEC &nbsp;in Noordwijk, the Netherlands,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/Experimental_spaceplane_unboxed_for_final_tests\">&nbsp;last week<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spaceplane will now undergo a rigorous test campaign to confirm it is ready for flight. ESA\u2019s centre is the largest satellite testing facility in Europe, with everything needed to recreate every aspect of the launch and space environment under one air-conditioned roof.<\/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\/07\/unboxing_ixv\/14601943-7-eng-GB\/Unboxing_IXV_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe moment when ESA\u2019s IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is removed from its protective container, safely inside the cleanroom environment of the Agency\u2019s Technical Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV\u2019s sleek lifting body hull gives a clue to its purpose: this November it will be launched 320 km into space on top of a Vega rocket, climbing up to 420 km before beginning a long glide back through the atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the process, IXV will gather data on reentry conditions to help guide the design of future spaceplanes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV arrived at ESTEC &nbsp;in Noordwijk, the Netherlands,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/Experimental_spaceplane_unboxed_for_final_tests\">&nbsp;last week<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spaceplane will now undergo a rigorous test campaign to confirm it is ready for flight. ESA\u2019s centre is the largest satellite testing facility in Europe, with everything needed to recreate every aspect of the launch and space environment under one air-conditioned roof.<\/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-220444","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\/220444","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=220444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220444\/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=220444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}