{"id":82315,"date":"2012-10-12T22:08:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/air-force-investigates-engine-glitch-on-recent-ula-delta-4-launch\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T14:08:53","slug":"air-force-investigates-engine-glitch-on-recent-ula-delta-4-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/air-force-investigates-engine-glitch-on-recent-ula-delta-4-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Investigates Engine Glitch on Recent ULA Delta 4 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-12-12] The <strong>U.S. Air Force <\/strong>has launched an investigation into an upper-stage engine glitch that occurred last week during an unmanned <strong>United Launch Alliance (ULA)<\/strong> Delta 4 rocket launch that carried a GPS navigational satellite into orbit, ULA confirmed Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p>\tFuture flights of the Delta 4 rocket are on hold pending results of the investigation. The GPS 2F satellite reached its intended orbit despite the problem on the <strong>Pratt &amp; Whitney Rocketdyne<\/strong>\u2013built RL10 engine. ULA and the engine manufacturer are also investigating the incident.<br \/>\n\t\u201cThe onboard inertial guidance and flight control systems compensated for the lower thrust conditions and the Delta second stage delivered the satellite to the proper orbit,\u201d ULA said in a statement.<br \/>\n\tULA has scheduled its next Atlas 5 mission to launch a robotic miniature space shuttle for Oct. 25.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-12-12] The U.S. Air Force has launched an investigation into an upper-stage engine glitch that occurred last week during an unmanned United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 rocket launch that carried a GPS navigational satellite into orbit, ULA confirmed Oct. 12. Future flights of the Delta 4 rocket are on hold pending results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-82315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82315"}],"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=82315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}