{"id":59200,"date":"2020-08-14T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-grumman-completes-1st-rocket-motor-qualification-test-for-ula\/"},"modified":"2020-08-14T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:11:41","slug":"northrop-grumman-completes-1st-rocket-motor-qualification-test-for-ula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-grumman-completes-1st-rocket-motor-qualification-test-for-ula\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman Completes 1st Rocket Motor Qualification Test for ULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> conducted its first ground test of an extended length 63-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63XL) in Promontory, Utah on Thursday. This variation of the company\u2019s GEM 63 strap-on booster was developed in partnership with <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) to provide additional lift capability to the Vulcan Centaur vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The motor fired for approximately 90 seconds during the static test, producing nearly 449,000 lbs of thrust to qualify the motor\u2019s internal insulation, propellant grain, ballistics, and nozzle in a cold-conditioned environment. This test demonstrated materials and technologies similar to the GEM 63 rocket motor that qualified for flight in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new GEM 63XL motors leverage its flight-proven heritage while utilizing state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to enhance launch vehicle heavy-lift capabilities,\u201d said Charlie Precourt, vice president, propulsion systems, Northrop Grumman. \u201cThe GEM 63XL increases thrust and performance by 15-20 percent compared to a standard GEM 63.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman conducted its first ground test of an extended length 63-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63XL) in Promontory, Utah on Thursday. This variation of the company\u2019s GEM 63 strap-on booster was developed in partnership with United Launch Alliance (ULA) to provide additional lift capability to the Vulcan Centaur vehicle. The motor fired for approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59201,"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-59200","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\/59200"}],"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=59200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}