The recovery ship of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) leaves Genoa for rendez vous in the Pacific with IXV reentry demonstrator in November. IXV was built by Thales Alenia Space on behalf of ESA.
IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle), the European Space Agency’s atmospheric reentry demonstrator, built by Thales Alenia Space, arrived today at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou.