{"id":693616,"date":"2021-06-18T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693616"},"modified":"2021-06-18T04:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T08:16:00","slug":"esa-led-space-propulsion-test-facility-passed-to-uk-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693616","title":{"rendered":"ESA-led space propulsion test facility passed to UK owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/National_Space_Propulsion_Facility_card_full.png\" alt=\"National Space Propulsion Facility\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s new National Space Propulsion Facility has been declared open. ESA oversaw the design, assembly and commissioning of the facility \u2013 equipped to test-fire the most powerful classes of rocket engines used aboard spacecraft \u2013 which will now be managed by the UK Government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stfc.ukri.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Science and Technology Facilities Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/ESA-led_space_propulsion_test_facility_passed_to_UK_owner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA-led space propulsion test facility passed to UK owner<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s new National Space Propulsion Facility has been declared open. ESA oversaw the design, assembly and commissioning of the facility \u2013 equipped to test-fire the most powerful classes of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693617,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693616","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}