Spacecraft recovery

The HLRM140-3S on board Nos Aires tug lifts 5400 kg @ 12,38 mtr

Last summer, the tug ‘Nos Aries’ and crew aiming to recover Europe’s unmanned IXV spacecraft had a practice run off the coast of Tuscany, Italy. They retrieved a prototype of the suborbital IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, the same model flown in 2013 in a splashdown test off the east coast ...

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