{"id":78910,"date":"2014-01-06T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-awarded-an-astrium-contract-for-ariane-5-me\/"},"modified":"2014-01-06T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T10:06:18","slug":"thales-alenia-space-awarded-an-astrium-contract-for-ariane-5-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-awarded-an-astrium-contract-for-ariane-5-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space Awarded an Astrium Contract for Ariane 5 ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 1-6-2014] <b>Thales Alenia Space Belgium <\/b>has signed a contract for the development of the control electronics on the upper-stage Vinci engine steering system with <b>Astrium<\/b>, prime contractor for the Ariane 5 ME (Midlife Evolution).<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to make its first flight in mid-2018, Ariane 5 ME is a higher performance version of Europe\u2019s Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The main change is a new, more powerful cryogenic upper stage powered by the Vinci engine, developed under Snecma responsibility. This engine offers multiple restart capability, greatly increasing the launcher\u2019s satellite orbital positioning capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to developing the electronic control power unit (ECPU), Thales Alenia Space Belgium is developing a new version of the power distribution unit that supplies electricity to all of the launcher\u2019s systems and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 1-6-2014] Thales Alenia Space Belgium has signed a contract for the development of the control electronics on the upper-stage Vinci engine steering system with Astrium, prime contractor for the Ariane 5 ME (Midlife Evolution). Scheduled to make its first flight in mid-2018, Ariane 5 ME is a higher performance version of Europe\u2019s Ariane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78913,"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-78910","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\/78910"}],"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=78910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}