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NASA successfully tests new inflatable heat shield for atmospheric reentries (VIDEO)

Washington, USA - "We look forward to future launches of even bigger inflatable aeroshells"

Great success for the new Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE). The spacecraft was launched yesterday at 07:01 am from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Islands, Virginia. The test was 20-minute long. "It is great to see the initial results indicate we had a successful test of the hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator. This demonstration flight foes a long way toward showing...

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Rome, Italy, 07/24/2012 17:33
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