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. Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
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. Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
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. Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
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.