{"id":87309,"date":"2010-03-16T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-aerojet-conduct-taurus-2-engine-tests\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T09:59:13","slug":"orbital-aerojet-conduct-taurus-2-engine-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-aerojet-conduct-taurus-2-engine-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital, Aerojet Conduct Taurus 2 Engine Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">[03-16-10] <b>Orbital Sciences<\/b> and <b>Aerojet<\/b> have conducted a series of AJ26\/NK-33 rocket engine tests in support of the development of Orbital\u2019s Taurus 2 space launch vehicle, the companies announced March. 13.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The tests, conducted in Samara, Russia, demonstrated a hot-fire duration equal to two times a normal Taurus 2 acceptance testing and launch profile duty cycle. Over the last two weeks, three tests were conducted with a cumulative duration of more than 600 seconds.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Aerojet is the provider of the AJ26\/NK-33 rocket engine for the first stage&nbsp;of the Taurus 2 launcher. The basic NK-33 engine was originally designed and produced in Russia for the N1 lunar launch vehicle.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWith the performance of the heritage engine now confirmed and well understood, we can move forward with confidence to configuration verification and acceptance testing of AJ26 engines at NASA\u2019s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi beginning in April,\u201d Ron Grabe, Orbital\u2019s executive vice president and general manager of launch services, said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Orbital expects the Taurus 2 rocket to begin its first missions in 2011, following the design verification tests completed at Stennis.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-16-10] Orbital Sciences and Aerojet have conducted a series of AJ26\/NK-33 rocket engine tests in support of the development of Orbital\u2019s Taurus 2 space launch vehicle, the companies announced March. 13.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The tests, conducted in Samara, Russia, demonstrated a hot-fire duration equal to two times a normal Taurus 2 acceptance testing and launch profile [&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-87309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87309"}],"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=87309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}