ESA's Vega rocket launched the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) on mission VV04 from Kourou, sending the lifting-body spaceplane on a suborbital reentry test that gathered data from over 300 sensors before a parachute splashdown in the Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 22 Vega flights