{"id":584819,"date":"2019-02-15T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=40067b8d3c658acb323b34c31a8c5f4e"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:19:00","slug":"p120c-second-firing-test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=584819","title":{"rendered":"P120C second firing test"},"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\/2019\/02\/p120c_second_firing_test\/19217827-7-eng-GB\/P120C_second_firing_test_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe new solid rocket booster P120C&nbsp;successfully completed its second firing test on 28 January 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis&nbsp;motor is a new European development. It&nbsp;will be strapped onto the sides of the future Ariane 6 launch vehicle as boosters for liftoff, and&nbsp;will also be used as the main stage for Vega-C.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter it was fully loaded with 142 tonnes of fuel, the 13.5 m long and 3.4 m diameter motor was ignited to simulate liftoff and the first phase of the flight. The motor burned for 135 seconds and delivered a maximum thrust of about 4650 kN . The test was conducted at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, and was completed with no anomalies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2019\/02\/p120c_second_firing_test\/19217827-7-eng-GB\/P120C_second_firing_test_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe new solid rocket booster P120C&nbsp;successfully completed its second firing test on 28 January 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis&nbsp;motor is a new European development. It&nbsp;will be strapped onto the sides of the future Ariane 6 launch vehicle as boosters for liftoff, and&nbsp;will also be used as the main stage for Vega-C.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter it was fully loaded with 142 tonnes of fuel, the 13.5 m long and 3.4 m diameter motor was ignited to simulate liftoff and the first phase of the flight. The motor burned for 135 seconds and delivered a maximum thrust of about 4650 kN . The test was conducted at Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana, and was completed with no anomalies.<\/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-584819","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\/584819","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=584819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584820,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584819\/revisions\/584820"}],"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=584819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}