/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15039334
>What was the point of this mission
IXV was to be the next step of yuro reentry demonstrators after the 1998 ARD, effectively was there to keep competences after NASA cucked esa out of the X-38 and as a way to justify Vega and give Italians more work to do.

And no, the IXV is being used as a basis for space rider, which is basically aN European X-37 made of an IXV with a payload bay and a service module, NET Q4 2024, down from 2021...,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4bGWpWbHDM&feature=emb_title

> So its a spaceplane

I meant in look, it’s one of tbe blander looking lifting bodies