{"id":71161,"date":"2016-05-04T21:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-and-generation-orbit-sign-space-act-agreement-on-golauncher-1\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:27:20","slug":"nasa-and-generation-orbit-sign-space-act-agreement-on-golauncher-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-and-generation-orbit-sign-space-act-agreement-on-golauncher-1\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA and Generation Orbit Sign Space Act Agreement on GOLauncher 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-04-2016]<b>&nbsp;<\/b><b>Generation Orbit Launch Services<\/b> (GO) has signed a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with <b>NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center<\/b> (AFRC) to collaboratively pursue the flight test and envelope clearance for the GOLauncher 1 air launched rocket vehicle. Using AFRC\u2019s experience and capabilities in flight test engineering for air launch rocket systems, the two-year program will demonstrate integration of the GOLauncher 1 Inert Test Article (GO1-ITA) with NASA\u2019s Gulfstream 3 research aircraft, captive carry flight testing, and release testing.<\/p>\n<p>GOLauncher 1 is an air launched suborbital launch system currently under development. Progress with GOLauncher 1 will feed into GO\u2019s orbital air-launch system GOLauncher 2. NASA AFRC will continue the development of its store separation analysis capability, eventually validating the toolset through release flight testing of the GO1-ITA. The program is to demonstrate GO\u2019s launch vehicle release maneuver from a business jet aircraft, paving the way for test flights of the GOLauncher 1 hypersonic testbed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data we\u2019ll gather will allow us to build confidence in our aircraft performance estimates and demonstrate the release of our vehicle from the aircraft for the first time,\u201d said A.J. Piplica, COO of GO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-04-2016]&nbsp;Generation Orbit Launch Services (GO) has signed a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to collaboratively pursue the flight test and envelope clearance for the GOLauncher 1 air launched rocket vehicle. Using AFRC\u2019s experience and capabilities in flight test engineering for air launch rocket systems, the two-year program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71163,"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-71161","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\/71161"}],"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=71161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}