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European Space Agency • Themis Demonstrator • Launch Complex 3B (NA)
European Space Agency • Themis Demonstrator • LC-3B
First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.
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First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.
Themis is an ESA rocket prototype – a flagship European demonstrator for low-cost rocket recovery and reuse technologies. Powered by the reusable, methane-fuelled engine Prometheus, it is developed with ArianeGroup as prime contractor and building on decades of European research and experience in rocketry and space operations, Themis is designed to launch, land vertically and live on for another mission.
The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.
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Launch-stage and landing context surfaced from LL2 when it exists.
T1H, which stands for Themis 1-Engine Hop, is the first Themis demonstrator flight model, designed for low-altitude hop tests at the Esrange Space Center in Sweden.
