Friday, July 5, 2013
ESA Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV): Flotation Aids Fail to deploy on Splashdown
ESA tested splashdown on its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), a wingless body with movable rear flaps for control, on June 19th. Review found that parachutes provided such a gentle landing that the inflators never detected the splashdown.Credit: ESA
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment