{"id":221727,"date":"2014-10-27T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"4f983ef662bf11411e2b29bab1d90a39"},"modified":"2014-10-27T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:11:00","slug":"final-checks-on-ixv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221727","title":{"rendered":"Final checks on 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\/10\/final_checks_on_ixv2\/15000921-1-eng-GB\/Final_checks_on_IXV_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is being prepared for launch at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV will be launched 320 km into space on top of a Vega &nbsp;rocket, climbing up to 420 km before beginning a long glide back through the atmosphere. In the process, IXV will gather data on reentry conditions to help guide the design of future spaceplanes. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about IXV:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\" >http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a>&nbsp;Connect with IXV on Twitter:<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/esa_ixv\" >twitter.com\/esa_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\/images\/2014\/10\/final_checks_on_ixv2\/15000921-1-eng-GB\/Final_checks_on_IXV_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is being prepared for launch at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV will be launched 320 km into space on top of a Vega &nbsp;rocket, climbing up to 420 km before beginning a long glide back through the atmosphere. In the process, IXV will gather data on reentry conditions to help guide the design of future spaceplanes. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about IXV:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a>&nbsp;Connect with IXV on Twitter:<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/esa_ixv\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/esa_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-221727","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\/221727","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=221727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221727\/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=221727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}