Last February, a Vega launcher injected Europe’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle demonstrator (IXV) into a suborbital atmospheric re-entry trajectory. The demonstrator was carrying 10 electrical systems designed and produced by Thales. For the IXV programme, Thales supplied nozzle actuators for the Vega launcher’s three engine stages as well as the drive motors and brakes for the two flight actuators of IXV.
