ESA's IXV + Vega Recreation

[PDCWolf]

First of all, I'm not sure if this goes here, but if it doesn't I'm sure mods will put it where it belongs.

IXV - Mastering Atmospheric Reentry

ESA's most recent endeavor consists of sending an unmanned reentry testbed composed of a lifting body design and two control surfaces attached to it's aft. It's filled with temperature and pressure sensors and it is going to be carried to near orbital speeds by the Vega launcher. After separating from Vega, the IXV will begin testing multiple reentry systems such as ablative and ceramic shielding, and the control surfaces themselves. Finally, it will spash down helped by a parachute on the pacific ocean.

So, I grabbed some procedural parts, FAR, the mk2 spaceplane parts and began building stuff. This is the result.

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Edited February 5, 2015 by PDCWolf

[ouion]

needs to go to the spacecraft exchange section

[PDCWolf]

it's not a spacecraft up for download though. It's like when someone made the falcon 9 landing on a barge in ksp

[CalculusWarrior]

Eh, the Exchange is more for sharing .craft files. This should be fine here.

Well done OP on the IXV! It's a cool looking craft. Personally, I love lifting bodies; they're so fun to fly.

[PDCWolf]

Eh, the Exchange is more for sharing .craft files. This should be fine here.

Well done OP on the IXV! It's a cool looking craft. Personally, I love lifting bodies; they're so fun to fly.

This one is pretty hard for some reason, touching q/e without RCS on is almost a dead sentence because they act more like yaw even when closer to the center of the craft, which for a surface mounted like that, it shouldn't have that big of an effect.