{"id":242261,"date":"2026-08-05T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/rubicon-ascent-thruster-moves-from-hot-fire-testing-to-production"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:08:33","slug":"rubicon-ascent-thruster-moves-from-hot-fire-testing-to-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/rubicon-ascent-thruster-moves-from-hot-fire-testing-to-production","title":{"rendered":"Rubicon ASCENT thruster moves from hot-fire testing to production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rubicon-ascent-thruster-moves-from-hot-fire-testing-to-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Rubicon Space Systems completed hot-fire testing of its Velox 5-newton ASCENT monopropellant thruster, paving the way for on-orbit operations in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program demonstrated performance beyond our design objectives,\u201d Rubicon Director Daniel Cavender told SpaceNews. \u201cWe are now transitioning the thruster into flight production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Velox thruster, fueled with ASCENT, a hydrazine replacement, was tested in Rubicon\u2019s vacuum altitude test chamber in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Rubicon Space Systems completed hot-fire testing of its Velox 5-newton ASCENT monopropellant thruster, paving the way for on-orbit operations in 2027. \u201cThe program demonstrated performance beyond our design objectives,\u201d Rubicon Director Daniel Cavender told SpaceNews. \u201cWe are now transitioning the thruster into flight production.\u201d The Velox thruster, fueled with ASCENT, a hydrazine [\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-242261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242261","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=242261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}