Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) adalah kendaraan eksperimental re-entry Badan Antariksa Eropa (ESA) dimaksudkan untuk memvalidasi peluncur dapat digunakan kembali Eropa yang dapat dievaluasi dalam rangka program FLPP. Pengembangan IXV akan dilakukan di bawah kepemimpinan perusahaan NGL Perdana SpA. ini akan mewarisi prinsip-prinsip penelitian sebelumnya seperti CNES 'Pre-X dan ESA's AREV (Atmospheric Reentry Experimental Vehicle).
Referensi
- Giorgio Tumino, Yves Gerard (November 2006). "IXV: the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle" (PDF). ESA bulletin (128): 62–67.
- Giorgio Tumino, Enrico Angelino, Frederic Leleu, Roberto Angelini, Patrice Plotard, Josef Sommer (2008-10-15). The IXV project: the ESA re-entry system and technolologies demonstrator paving the way to European autonomous space transportation and exploration endeavours (PDF). 3rd FLPP Industrial Workshop. European Space Agency. IAC-08-D2.6.01. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2011-07-24. Diakses tanggal 2014-06-09.
- Paolo Baiocca (June 2007). Pre-X experimental re-entry lifting body: Design of flight test experiments for critical aerothermal phenomena (PDF). RTO-EN-AVT-130 — Flight Experiments for Hypersonic Vehicle Development (von Karman Institute, 24–27 October 2005). NATO Research and Technology Organisation. hlm. 11–1–11–18. ISBN 978-92-837-0079-1. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2013-03-02. Diakses tanggal 2014-06-09.
- Paolo Baiocca, Sylvain Guedron, Patrice Plotard, Jacques Moulin (October 2006). "The Pre-X atmospheric re-entry experimental lifting body: Program status and system synthesis". Proceedings of the 57th IAF Congress. International Astronautical Congress (IAF). hlm. 459–474. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2007.01.053.
- T. Gawehn, D. Neeb, F. Tarfeld, A. Gülhan, M. Dormieux, P. Binetti, T. Walloschek (2011). "Experimental investigation of the influence of the flow structure on the aerodynamic coefficients of the IXV vehicle". Shock Waves. 21 (3): 253–266. Bibcode:2011ShWav..21..253G. doi:10.1007/s00193-011-0326-y.
- ESA re-entry technologies page
- IXV: learning to come back from Space, ESA Television (2008-10-23), IXV Video News Release VNR
- ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, ESA Multimedia Gallery (2008 animation)
- ESA’s IXV reentry vehicle mission, ESA Online videos (2012-11-08)
- ESA Euronews: "Splashdown — the re-entry test" (2013-08-22). Video di YouTube
- CNES reusable atmospheric re-entry vehicle: PRE-XDiarsipkan 2014-07-15 di Wayback Machine.