{"id":75076,"date":"2015-02-04T20:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-sciences-adds-all-electric-capability-to-geostar-3-with-aerojet-rocketdyne-thrusters\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:15:02","slug":"orbital-sciences-adds-all-electric-capability-to-geostar-3-with-aerojet-rocketdyne-thrusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-sciences-adds-all-electric-capability-to-geostar-3-with-aerojet-rocketdyne-thrusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Sciences Adds All-Electric Capability to GEOStar 3 with Aerojet Rocketdyne Thrusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 02-04-2015] <b>Orbital Sciences <\/b>will use <b>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/b>\u2019s XR-5 Hall thrusters on its newest satellite bus, the GEOStar 3, for an all-electric design. The contract provides electric propulsion systems for the next three years, capable of both orbit raising and station-keeping.<\/p>\n<p>Orbital Sciences introduced the GEOStar 3 in March 2014 as an evolution of the GEOStar 2. GEOStar 3 satellites can be stacked for dual launch aboard the Ariane 5, Proton and Falcon Heavy rockets, and are compatible with the H2A, <b>Sea Launch <\/b>and Land Launch rockets for single launches.<\/p>\n<p>The Aerojet Rocketdyne XR-5 subsystem is comprised of 5-kilowatt class Hall thrusters with integral flow regulation valves, power processing units with built-in thruster selection units and all associated electrical harnessing. The company is transitioning production of the thruster to <b>European Space Propulsion<\/b>. Aerojet Rocketdyne has 12 XR-5 thrusters currently in production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 02-04-2015] Orbital Sciences will use Aerojet Rocketdyne\u2019s XR-5 Hall thrusters on its newest satellite bus, the GEOStar 3, for an all-electric design. The contract provides electric propulsion systems for the next three years, capable of both orbit raising and station-keeping. Orbital Sciences introduced the GEOStar 3 in March 2014 as an evolution of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75077,"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-75076","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\/75076"}],"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=75076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}