Monday 26 January 2015

European spaceplane is "powered up" for its Feb 11 launch

SPACE TRAVEL
European spaceplane is "powered up" for its Feb 11 launch
Paris (SPX) Jan 22, 2015 - Next month's flight of the light-lift Vega vehicle in Arianespace's launcher family will involve a highly unusual mission profile: a suborbital trajectory with an unmanned European spaceplane that begins in French Guiana and ends with the payload's Pacific Ocean splashdown. Scheduled for liftoff on February 11, Vega will loft the European Space Agency's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (I ... more


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