{"id":221112,"date":"2014-07-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"d7bb75ee7b71e76f8efbe961ae93e93d"},"modified":"2014-07-21T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T22:00:00","slug":"measuring-esas-ixv-spaceplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221112","title":{"rendered":"Measuring ESA&#8217;s IXV spaceplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/07\/measuring_esa_s_ixv_spaceplane\/14637531-1-eng-GB\/Measuring_ESA_s_IXV_spaceplane_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, is tilted and turned along and around all three axes at ESA\u2019s Technical Centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands to measure its centre of gravity and moments of inertia, because both influence its flying characteristics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be launched on Vega in early November 2014, IXV will flight-test the technologies and critical systems for Europe\u2019s future automated reentry vehicles returning from low orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\" >http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a><\/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\/videos\/2014\/07\/measuring_esa_s_ixv_spaceplane\/14637531-1-eng-GB\/Measuring_ESA_s_IXV_spaceplane_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, is tilted and turned along and around all three axes at ESA\u2019s Technical Centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands to measure its centre of gravity and moments of inertia, because both influence its flying characteristics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be launched on Vega in early November 2014, IXV will flight-test the technologies and critical systems for Europe\u2019s future automated reentry vehicles returning from low orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a><\/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-221112","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\/221112","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=221112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221112\/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=221112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}