{"id":85806,"date":"2010-11-15T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/snecma-completes-vinci-engine-ground-test-fire\/"},"modified":"2010-11-15T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:58:45","slug":"snecma-completes-vinci-engine-ground-test-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/snecma-completes-vinci-engine-ground-test-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Snecma Completes Vinci Engine Ground Test Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">[11-15-10] Prime contractor <strong>Snecma<\/strong> tested the Vinci rocket engine Nov. 11 representing an actual flight, the company announced<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">\tThe engine, which will power the new upper stage of the Ariane 5 launcher starting in 2016, was tested on the P4.1 test rig at the German aerospace center DLR\u2019s facility in Lampoldshausen. Since the beginning of the test campaign in April, this Vinci engine, the third developmental model, has logged a total of 4,255 seconds of operation \u2014 more than six times its nominal operating time on a single mission. The fourth engine is in final assembly, with a new series of tests scheduled to start in early 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">\tThe Vinci cryogenic engine is being developed by Snecma under the European Space Agency\u2019s A5ME (Midlife Evolution) program, for which Astrium ST is the prime contractor. The engine is intended to increase the Ariane 5\u2019s payload capacity by 20 percent and can be restarted in flight, giving the launcher greater operational flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-15-10] Prime contractor Snecma tested the Vinci rocket engine Nov. 11 representing an actual flight, the company announced The engine, which will power the new upper stage of the Ariane 5 launcher starting in 2016, was tested on the P4.1 test rig at the German aerospace center DLR\u2019s facility in Lampoldshausen. Since the beginning of [&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-85806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85806"}],"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=85806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}