{"id":5817,"date":"2025-03-28T21:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/l3harris-advanced-large-solid-rocket-motors-power-us-missile-defense-test\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:59:29","slug":"l3harris-advanced-large-solid-rocket-motors-power-us-missile-defense-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/l3harris-advanced-large-solid-rocket-motors-power-us-missile-defense-test\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris\u2019 Advanced Large Solid Rocket Motors Power US Missile Defense Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1743140687173_638787374889135605.png\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr fr-dib\" width=\"711\" height=\"376\" alt=\"L3Harris\u2019 Advanced Large Solid Rocket Motors Power US Missile Defense Test\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1743140687173_638787374889135605.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1743140687173_638787374889135605.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"711\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"376\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>L3Harris Technologies<\/strong> has debuted an advanced large solid rocket motor to power the company\u2019s air-launched Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) target vehicle. The new L3Harris solid rocket motor, named eSR-19, was part of a recent <strong>Missile Defense Agency (MDA)<\/strong> test that powered the target\u2019s first and second stages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The test, designated as Flight Test Other-40 or Stellar Banshee, demonstrated detection and tracking of an advanced hypersonic target by the USS Pinckney. The exercise included firing a simulated upgraded Standard Missile 6 at the target, an air-launched MRBM with a Hypersonic Target Vehicle 1 front end.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: What is a Launch Vehicle?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cL3Harris designs, builds and integrates air-launched target missiles and then launches them from C-17 aircraft to provide realistic test trajectories,\u201d said <strong>Ken Bedingfield<\/strong><strong>, President, Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3Harris<\/strong>. \u201cThe enhanced capability of our new eSR-19 solid rocket motor, combined with our proven air-launch system, allows our target missile to accurately represent a wider array of potential threats, providing MDA with more flexibility in developing test scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eSR-19 is an upgraded version of the SR-19, which powers the second stage of the nation\u2019s Minuteman III strategic missiles. The new, advanced, large solid rocket motor features a lighter filament-wound composite case and other improvements to provide enhanced performance. The successful mission marks L3Harris\u2019 39th launch in support of the U.S. missile defense program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L3Harris Technologies has debuted an advanced large solid rocket motor to power the company\u2019s air-launched Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) target vehicle. The new L3Harris solid rocket motor, named eSR-19, was part of a recent Missile Defense Agency (MDA) test that powered the target\u2019s first and second stages. The test, designated as Flight Test Other-40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,58,20],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-launch-vehicle-engines","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}