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Zefiro 9A Small Rocket Motor Test Fired In Italy, ESA Announces

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Monday, May 4th, 2009

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The Zefiro 9A third stage rocket motor fired successfully, providing a new small launch vehicle for Europe. That final qualification test firing of the third stage took place at the Salto di Quirra Interforce Test Range in Sardinia, Italy. The motor took almost two minutes to completely burn its propellant load, witnessed by engineers and technicians, representatives of Avio, ELV and the European Space Agency, ESA/IPT. Main objectives of the test were to verify behavior of the Zefiro 9A motor…

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