Firefight successful for the European IXV prototype space plane. Launched by the Vega rocket, the experimental ship made a 100-minute flight from the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana flight during which he traveled more than 32,000 kilometers. The prototype is raised to 420 km altitude before beginning its descent speed of 7.5 kilometers per second. Slowed by a parachute, he then landed smoothly in the Pacific Ocean and was recovered by boat.
With this flight, spatial Europe has demonstrated his mastery of the controlled re-entry into the atmosphere technology, an area where the Americans, Russians and Chinese had a head start. Success followed by our specialist space, Jeremy Wilks, from the control center of ESA in Turin. "The atmosphere at the control center is now in relaxation and celebration. The data of the prototype have arrived, the mission is a huge success and will help to develop all kinds of other missions and spacecraft in the next twenty years, "he reported.
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