{"id":7011,"date":"2017-10-01T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T21:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2017-10-01T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T21:32:38","slug":"system-intergration-test-completed-for-ascender-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=7011","title":{"rendered":"System Intergration Test Completed for Ascender 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We completed the full system integration test yesterday on the Ascender 9 airship. It took 12 hours but the team pulled it off. All the pumps, valves, vents, motors, props and telemetry and on board network got put through there paces. We even put a 200 cubic feet of helium in the aft internal cell and pumped it back and forth between cells. This actually is a fairly complex vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/A9_behind1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7016\" title=\"a9_behind1\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/A9_behind1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ascender 8from behind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anthony_prep1JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7018\" title=\"anthony_prep1jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anthony_prep1JPG-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anthony setting up the systems test before we inflated the airship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/K2_Eric_motor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7020\" title=\"k2_eric_motor\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/K2_Eric_motor-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin and Eric getting a motor installed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/paul_inspecting_half_inflated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7022\" title=\"paul_inspecting_half_inflated\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/paul_inspecting_half_inflated-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul inspecting the outer envelope during inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We completed the full system integration test yesterday on the Ascender 9 airship. It took 12 hours but the team pulled it off. All the pumps, valves, vents, motors, props and telemetry and on board network got put through there paces. We even put a 200 cubic feet of helium in the aft internal cell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}