Step into an interactive 3D environment that gives you an exclusive glimpse into the SALTO project’s Hop Test campaign. This experience is designed to provide an engaging, informative overview of the key elements involved in testing the T1H demonstrator, with a special focus on the flight (hop) test phase.
Guide some of the activities yourself. You will be able to decide when you want to move to the next step of the hop test by clicking on the arrows.
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This 3D experience is intended for illustrative purposes only. It provides a visual overview of the main activities related to the hop test of the T1H demonstrator within the framework of the SALTO project. Please note that the full test campaign encompasses a wider range of activities, including but not limited to technology integration, rehearsal tests, hot firing tests, and other essential procedures. This experience is designed to offer a general understanding of the process, with a particular focus on the hop test phase.
The SALTO aims to raise the maturity level of the first European reusable rocket technology, significantly reduce launch costs, ensure improvements in the environmental footprint and strengthen Europe’s competitiveness in strategic space missions.
SALTO will perform, for the first time in Europe, fly / recover / re-fly cycles of a reusable rocket first-stage demonstrator.
The SALTO project aims to validate the landing phase, which is particularly complex but essential in order to be able to recover a launcher. Test campaigns will be conducted in Kiruna, Sweden.
It is fair to say, that Esrange Space Center is not your everyday project. From the infrastructure itself – launch pads, buildings, storage rooms, offices, electricity and water supply – the team has managed thousands of gravel transports, developed advanced rocket communications systems, built new control centers and procedures for a variety of mission types and performed hundreds of flight simulations to ensure safe launches.
SALTO – reuSable strAtegic space Launcher Technologies & Operations
