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# Exploration Company fires Huracan lunar lander engine at Westcott
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-08-07-exploration-company-huracan-engine-test/
- Published: 2025-08-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T12:00:20.000Z
- Description: The Exploration Company completed eleven hot fire tests of a fourth Huracan thrust chamber at Airborne Engineering's Westcott site in England. The tests validated combustion stability for the engine meant to power its Nyx Moon lunar lander.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [European Spaceflight, 7 August 2025](https://europeanspaceflight.com/the-exploration-company-completes-test-campaign-for-lunar-lander-engine/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the engine is flight qualified or that the Nyx Moon lander's planned lunar schedule holds.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-16\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)