{"id":67921,"date":"2017-06-24T01:17:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianegroup-to-develop-esas-future-prometheus-engine\/"},"modified":"2017-06-24T01:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:17:37","slug":"arianegroup-to-develop-esas-future-prometheus-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianegroup-to-develop-esas-future-prometheus-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianegroup to Develop ESA\u2019s Future Prometheus Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) and <strong>Airbus Safran Launchers<\/strong>, the 50\/50 joint-venture set up by the <strong>Airbus<\/strong> and <strong>Safran<\/strong> groups, which will become <strong>ArianeGroup<\/strong> on July 1, signed the first tranche of the development contract for the future Prometheus LOx-methane engine at the Paris Air Show. Prometheus is a demonstrator running on Liquid Oxygen (LOx) and methane for a reusable engine. Applications deriving from it will be able to equip future European launchers as of 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The Prometheus project began in November 2015, with partnership investments between the <strong>French Space Agency<\/strong> (CNES) and ArianeGroup, but took on a truly European dimension in December 2016, at the last ESA ministerial level conference in Lucerne, Switzerland. Prometheus was then allocated a budget of more than 80 million euros ($89.5 million).<\/p>\n<p>The contract signed today also marked the addition of European industrial partners to the Prometheus demonstrator project, including <strong>Avio<\/strong> from Italy, <strong>GKN<\/strong> from Sweden, <strong>Safran AeroBooster<\/strong> from Belgium, and the German and French entities of ArianeGroup. The first tests are scheduled for 2020 in Lampoldhausen, Germany, on the site of the German aerospace agency (DLR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Safran Launchers, the 50\/50 joint-venture set up by the Airbus and Safran groups, which will become ArianeGroup on July 1, signed the first tranche of the development contract for the future Prometheus LOx-methane engine at the Paris Air Show. Prometheus is a demonstrator running on Liquid Oxygen (LOx) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63116,"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-67921","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\/67921"}],"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=67921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}