{"id":995,"date":"2010-12-21T02:43:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2010-12-21T02:43:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:43:48","slug":"taurus-ii-first-stage-engine-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Taurus II First Stage Engine Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\"><object width=\"599\" height=\"362\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-sDv6y5PqLE?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-sDv6y5PqLE?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"599\" height=\"362\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, December 17, 2010, NASA conducted a test fire of the liquid-fueled AJ26 engine. Two AJ26 engines will power the first stage of the Orbital\u2019s Taurus II launch vehicle. The engine test ran for fifty-five seconds. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflightnow.com\/news\/n1012\/19aj26test\/\">The Aerojet AJ26 engines are derived from the Russian NK-33 engines.<\/a> The NK-33 engines, after spending four decades in storage, are being refurbished by Aerojet and qualified for U.S. propellants.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbital.com\/SpaceLaunch\/TaurusII\/\">Read more about the Taurus II launch vehicle&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, December 17, 2010, NASA conducted a test fire of the liquid-fueled AJ26 engine. Two AJ26 engines will power the first stage of the Orbital\u2019s Taurus II launch vehicle. The engine test ran for fifty-five seconds. <a target=_blank href=http:\/\/www.spaceflightnow.com\/news\/n1012\/19aj26test\/>The Aerojet AJ26 engines are derived from the Russian NK-33 engines.<\/a> The NK-33 engines, after spend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}