{"id":225200,"date":"2015-02-12T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"2603061f7a4d1ab83618887fa5f26dde"},"modified":"2015-02-12T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T08:40:00","slug":"ixv-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225200","title":{"rendered":"IXV recovery"},"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\/2015\/02\/ixv_recovery2\/15253152-2-eng-GB\/IXV_recovery_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRecovery of ESA\u2019s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle in the Pacific Ocean just west of the Galapagos islands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe IXV spaceplane lifted off at 13:40 GMT (14:40 CET, 10:40 local time) on 11 February from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana atop a Vega rocket. It separated from Vega at an altitude of 340 km and continued up to 412 km. Reentering from this suborbital path, it recorded a vast amount of data from more than 300 advanced and conventional sensors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs it descended, the five-metre-long, two-tonne craft manoeuvred to decelerate from hypersonic to supersonic speed. The entry speed of 7.5&nbsp;km\/s at an altitude of 120 km created the same conditions as those for a vehicle returning from low Earth orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV glided through the atmosphere before parachutes deployed to slow the descent further for a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about IXV: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a> Connect with IXV on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/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\/2015\/02\/ixv_recovery2\/15253152-2-eng-GB\/IXV_recovery_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRecovery of ESA\u2019s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle in the Pacific Ocean just west of the Galapagos islands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe IXV spaceplane lifted off at 13:40 GMT (14:40 CET, 10:40 local time) on 11 February from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana atop a Vega rocket. It separated from Vega at an altitude of 340 km and continued up to 412 km. Reentering from this suborbital path, it recorded a vast amount of data from more than 300 advanced and conventional sensors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs it descended, the five-metre-long, two-tonne craft manoeuvred to decelerate from hypersonic to supersonic speed. The entry speed of 7.5&nbsp;km\/s at an altitude of 120 km created the same conditions as those for a vehicle returning from low Earth orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV glided through the atmosphere before parachutes deployed to slow the descent further for a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about IXV: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a> Connect with IXV on Twitter: <a href=\"\/twitter.com\/esa_ixv\">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-225200","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\/225200","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=225200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225200\/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=225200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}