Reusable Spaceplane launched by ESA

Reusable space vehicle is the future of space travel . Lots of space organisation around the world like NASA of USA, SPACE-X, ESA, ISRO and lot more are working to built and upgrade the spaceplane that can be used multiple times. European Space Agency has built his own reusable spaceplane called IXV that can be used multiple times.
On 11 February, 2015 the IXV has completed a 100-minute mission. IXV has been launched from the Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guinea. After reaching at a altitude of 211 miles from the Earth surface, IXV got separated from the Vega rocket and continued upward to 256 miles into the thermosphere. It then fell back to Earth reentering atmosphere at a altitude of 74.6 miles and a speed of 4.7 miles per second. The 300 sensors abroad the IXV recorded valuable data that the ESA will use to guide further future vehicles design.

Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle or IXV is a spaceplane by European Space Agency launched abroad a Vega rocket. The spaceplane looks like a miniature version of the NASA space shuttle. ESA has tested this spaceplane in order to figure out the best designs for reusable vehicle in future that will reenter the Earth atmosphere autonomously. The spaceplane will be robotically controlled. It is different from space shuttle, as IXV use a lifting body arrangements with no wings and using two movable flaps for re-entry flight control. Re-entry is same that of a space shuttle with a nose-high altitude. Landing is done using a parachutes. t>

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