{"id":77802,"date":"2018-04-14T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/next-c-electric-propulsion-engine-poised-for-production"},"modified":"2018-04-14T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:51:07","slug":"next-c-electric-propulsion-engine-poised-for-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/next-c-electric-propulsion-engine-poised-for-production","title":{"rendered":"NEXT-C electric propulsion engine poised for production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/next-c-electric-propulsion-engine-poised-for-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NEXT-C ion propulsion engine has successfully completed a Critical Design Review conducted by NASA and is planned for use on the agency\u2019s 2021 DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission. With the CDR finished, the next step in the process should be the production of actual flight units.<\/p>\n<p>NEXT-C stands for NASA\u2019s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial and was developed by the space agency and commercialized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AerojetRocketdyne.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing as the primary propulsion source for DART, NEXT-C will establish a precedent for future use of electric propulsion to enable ambitious future science missions,\u201d said Eileen Drake, CEO and President of Aerojet Rocketdyne via a company-issued release. \u201cElectric propulsion reduces overall mission cost without sacrificing reliability or mission success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflightinsider.com\/organizations\/aerojet-rocketdyne\/next-c-electric-propulsion-engine-poised-production\/\">http:\/\/www.spaceflightinsider.com\/organizations\/aerojet-rock...roduction\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NEXT-C ion propulsion engine has successfully completed a Critical Design Review conducted by NASA and is planned for use on the agency\u2019s 2021 DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission. With the CDR finished, the next step in the process should be the production of actual flight units. NEXT-C stands for NASA\u2019s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77802","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=77802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}