{"id":177148,"date":"2023-11-30T18:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T00:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/firefly-conducts-first-miranda-engine-test"},"modified":"2023-11-30T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T00:23:37","slug":"firefly-conducts-first-miranda-engine-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/firefly-conducts-first-miranda-engine-test","title":{"rendered":"Firefly conducts first Miranda engine test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/firefly-conducts-first-miranda-engine-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Firefly Aerospace has conducted the first hot-fire test of a new engine that will power the company\u2019s future launch vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Firefly announced Nov. 28 that it conducted the test of its Miranda engine at the company\u2019s Texas test site. A company spokesperson said the test, performed at 65% power, was designed to validate the engine\u2019s startup sequence.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to work its way up to a full-duration test in the coming months, running the engine for 206 seconds. Miranda uses liquid oxygen and kerosene propellants, generating 230,000 pounds-force of thrust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Firefly Aerospace has conducted the first hot-fire test of a new engine that will power the company\u2019s future launch vehicles. Firefly announced Nov. 28 that it conducted the test of its Miranda engine at the company\u2019s Texas test site. A company spokesperson said the test, performed at 65% power, was designed to validate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}