PAVING THE EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY WAY: THE IXV VEHICLE MODEL IDENTIFICATION SUBSYSTEM

摘要

The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) is an ESA re-entry technological platform built to verify in-flight the performance of critical re-entry technologies and to achieve Europe's ambition for a spacecraft to return autonomously from low orbit. The successful flight of the IXV provides the key elements to consolidate the knowledge necessary for the development of future European re-entry systems.