{"id":58664,"date":"2020-11-10T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/relativity-space-completes-mission-duty-cycle-test-for-aeon-1-rocket-engine\/"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:45:47","slug":"relativity-space-completes-mission-duty-cycle-test-for-aeon-1-rocket-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/relativity-space-completes-mission-duty-cycle-test-for-aeon-1-rocket-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Relativity Space Completes Mission Duty Cycle Test\u00a0for Aeon 1 Rocket Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relativity Space<\/strong> recently completed a full-duration Mission Duty Cycle test of its Aeon 1 rocket engine. The company shared a Youtube video of the test at <b>NASA<\/b>\u2018s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Monday, reporting the integrated Aeon 1 rocket engine ran at full power for 187 seconds. This meets the full duration required for launch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company said the Mission Duty Cycle test is a pinnacle engine development milestone as it proves that all key engine components&nbsp; including turbopumps, injector, chamber, igniters, etc. can operate in a flight-like configuration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This milestone was achieved 56 days after first integrated engine testing. \u201cThe most insane drive to a propulsion development milestone I\u2019ve ever seen. Awesome job by our entire Relativity Space team,\u201d Co-founder and CEO Tim Ellis tweeted after the test.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Aeon 1 rocket engine is part of Relativity\u2019s Terran 1 smallsat launch vehicle, and it is being developed with 3D printing technology. Relativity is targeting 2021 for the rocket\u2019s first flight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Relativity Space has a number of launch contracts already signed, and recently received a contract to launch <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b>\u2019s in-orbit refueling demonstration in 2023 as part of participation in the NASA Tipping Point contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relativity Space recently completed a full-duration Mission Duty Cycle test of its Aeon 1 rocket engine. The company shared a Youtube video of the test at NASA\u2018s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Monday, reporting the integrated Aeon 1 rocket engine ran at full power for 187 seconds. This meets the full duration required for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58666,"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":[],"class_list":["post-58664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58664"}],"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=58664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}