Italian Testbed Ready To Fly Again, Finally

Credit: ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER
Italian aerospace research agency CIRA is poised once again to attempt a second transonic drop test with its recoverable Unmanned Space Vehicle (USV), intended to investigate hypersonic reentry and transatmospheric flight. The 140-sec. flight, involving a new test vehicle, Pollux, will be...

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