{"id":76444,"date":"2014-08-29T01:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T17:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/brazil-plans-liquid-rocket-test-at-alcantara-launch-center\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T01:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T17:25:25","slug":"brazil-plans-liquid-rocket-test-at-alcantara-launch-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/brazil-plans-liquid-rocket-test-at-alcantara-launch-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Plans Liquid Rocket Test at Alc\u00e2ntara Launch Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-28-2014] Brazil\u2019s <b>Institute of Aeronautics and Space<\/b> (IAE) plans to conduct a sounding rocket test at the Alc\u00e2ntara Launch Center in S\u00e3o Luis, Maranh\u00e3o on Aug. 29. Launch VS-30 V13, designated Operation Fox, is the first Brazilian space vehicle to use liquid propellant.<\/p>\n<p><b>Orbital Engineering<\/b> and the IAE manufactured the liquid propellant, which uses a combination of ethanol and liquid oxygen. The rocket stands 10.8 meters in height and weighs 1.8 tons. The <b>Brazilian Space Agency<\/b> (AEB) provided financial support for the project, as well as support for a joint <b>Federal University of Rio Grande North<\/b> (UFRN) and IAE GPS system.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Avandelino Santana Jr., general coordinator of Operation Fox said the test will pave the way for the domestic manufacture of other aerospace vehicles in Brazil. The <b>German Space Agency <\/b>(DLR) is operating mobile station telemetry for the test launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-28-2014] Brazil\u2019s Institute of Aeronautics and Space (IAE) plans to conduct a sounding rocket test at the Alc\u00e2ntara Launch Center in S\u00e3o Luis, Maranh\u00e3o on Aug. 29. Launch VS-30 V13, designated Operation Fox, is the first Brazilian space vehicle to use liquid propellant. Orbital Engineering and the IAE manufactured the liquid propellant, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76445,"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-76444","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\/76444"}],"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=76444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}