{"id":500220,"date":"2018-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=eaba7c3b5e7ecacffee815909cc54870"},"modified":"2018-07-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:00:00","slug":"first-hot-firing-of-p120c-motor-for-vega-c-and-ariane-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=500220","title":{"rendered":"First hot firing of P120C motor for Vega-C and Ariane 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/first_hot_firing_of_p120c_motor_for_vega-c_and_ariane_6\/17593399-4-eng-GB\/First_hot_firing_of_P120C_motor_for_Vega-C_and_Ariane_6_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe hot firing of the development model of the P120C solid fuel rocket motor at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana on 16 July 2018, proves the design for use on Vega-C next year and on Ariane 6 from 2020.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe P120C is 13.5 m long and 3.4 m in diameter, and uses solid fuel in a case made of carbon composite material built in a single segment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt will replace the current P80 as the first stage motor of Vega-C. Two or four P120Cs will be strapped onto Ariane 6 as boosters for liftoff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis test was a collaboration between ESA, France\u2019s CNES space agency, and Europropulsion under contract to Avio and ArianeGroup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/first_hot_firing_of_p120c_motor_for_vega-c_and_ariane_6\/17593399-4-eng-GB\/First_hot_firing_of_P120C_motor_for_Vega-C_and_Ariane_6_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe hot firing of the development model of the P120C solid fuel rocket motor at Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana on 16 July 2018, proves the design for use on Vega-C next year and on Ariane 6 from 2020.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe P120C is 13.5 m long and 3.4 m in diameter, and uses solid fuel in a case made of carbon composite material built in a single segment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt will replace the current P80 as the first stage motor of Vega-C. Two or four P120Cs will be strapped onto Ariane 6 as boosters for liftoff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis test was a collaboration between ESA, France&rsquo;s CNES space agency, and Europropulsion under contract to Avio and ArianeGroup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500221,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500220\/revisions\/500221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}