{"id":70535,"date":"2016-07-12T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/uk-space-agency-forming-propulsion-test-facility\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T12:04:12","slug":"uk-space-agency-forming-propulsion-test-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/uk-space-agency-forming-propulsion-test-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Space Agency Forming Propulsion Test Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-12-2016] The <strong>U.K. Space Agency <\/strong>is investing $5.4 million (4.12 million pounds) in a national propulsion test facility. The planned facility will be based at Westcott in Buckinghamshire, allowing U.K. companies and academia to test and develop space propulsion engines.<\/p>\n<p>Westcott already has a long history of rocketry research for defense and space development. The space agency investment will add new capabilities for the domestic space sector, including the creation of a new vacuum facility at the Westcott propulsion test site. When used together with the existing industry-owned rocket firing test cells, this will allow the simulation of high altitude testing of thrusters up to 2kN. The agency is also upgrading an existing industry-owned test chamber to improve capabilities in the 25N thrust range, and opening the facilities alongside a smaller 1N thruster test chamber at the site, for the community to use.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.\u2019s <strong>Science and Technology Facilities Council<\/strong> (STFC), through its <strong>Ral Space <\/strong>facility will act as an independent broker for facility access. The <strong>European Space Agency <\/strong>(ESA) will advise and oversee the initial detailed design phase before a review a few months from now to move to full implementation. The new facility is expected to allow cost-effective development and testing of engines for interplanetary travel, as well as for the commercial telecommunications satellite market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-12-2016] The U.K. Space Agency is investing $5.4 million (4.12 million pounds) in a national propulsion test facility. The planned facility will be based at Westcott in Buckinghamshire, allowing U.K. companies and academia to test and develop space propulsion engines. Westcott already has a long history of rocketry research for defense and space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70536,"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-70535","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\/70535"}],"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=70535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}