European eXPErimental Re-entry Testbed

European eXPErimental Re-entry Test-bed (EXPERT) is a European Space Agency aerothermodynamics research programme.

[1] As of 2012, one element in a European Space Agency push to develop vehicles capable of re-entry has been pushed back until at least 2013 as the agency seeks a launch alternative to the Russian submarine-launched Volna rocket which was withdrawn.

[2] One of its main goals was to test materials for ESA's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), an unmanned, delta-winged plane launched in 2015 aboard ESA's new Vega small-satellite launcher.

[3] Currently EXPERT remains in storage conditions in Turin.

[4] According to an ESA-ESTEC paper,[5] the EXPERT program has the following goals: This article related to the European Space Agency is a stub.