{"id":76070,"date":"2014-09-27T01:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/swiss-space-systems-evaluates-nk-39-engine-for-soar-smallsat-vehicle\/"},"modified":"2014-09-27T01:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:18:36","slug":"swiss-space-systems-evaluates-nk-39-engine-for-soar-smallsat-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/swiss-space-systems-evaluates-nk-39-engine-for-soar-smallsat-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Space Systems Evaluates NK-39 Engine for SOAR SmallSat Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-26-2014] Executives from <b>Swiss Space Systems<\/b> (S3) met with Russia\u2019s <b>JSC Kuznetsov <\/b>to check the NK-39 engines planned to power the unmanned suborbital shuttle SOAR. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at the Sochi Winter Olympics to collaborate on the engine, which would enable SOAR to launch satellites weighing up to 250 kg into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Space Systems plans to use a modified version of the NK-39 for the shuttle. JSC Kuznetsov will also leverage its experience in aircraft engines and maintenance to help conduct flights with the reusable vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>S3 and JSC Kuznetsov intend to begin a test-firing campaign of the engine in mid to late 2015. The first flight test of the SOAR launch vehicle is scheduled for 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-26-2014] Executives from Swiss Space Systems (S3) met with Russia\u2019s JSC Kuznetsov to check the NK-39 engines planned to power the unmanned suborbital shuttle SOAR. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at the Sochi Winter Olympics to collaborate on the engine, which would enable SOAR to launch satellites weighing up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76071,"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-76070","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\/76070"}],"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=76070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}