Posted on May 8, 2013, at 11:14 pm .
A test of the Saturn V first stage, S-1C-5, is conducted on Aug. 25, 1967, at Stennis Space Center. (Credit: NASA/SSC)
Stennis Space Center, MS (NASA PR) – Before NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
The B-2 Test Stand at Stennis, originally built to test Saturn rocket stages that propelled humans to the moon, is being completely renovated to test the SLS core stage in late 2016 and early 2017. The SLS stage, with four RS-25 rocket engines, will be installed on the stand for propellant fill and drain testing and two hot fire tests.
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Posted on April 27, 2013, at 5:53 am .
A J-2X engine test firing on April 4, 2103, at Stennis Space Center. (Credit: NASA/SSC)
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MS (NASA PR) — Engineers developing NASA’s next-generation rocket closed one chapter of testing with the completion of a J-2X engine test series on the A-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and will begin a new chapter of full motion testing on test stand A-1.
The J-2X will drive the second stage of the 143-ton (130-metric ton) heavy-lift version of the Space Launch System (SLS). The rocket will provide an entirely new capability for human exploration and send humans in NASA’s Orion spacecraft into deep space.
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Posted on May 4, 2012, at 11:32 am .
AJ26 engine undergoing testing.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 4, 2012 (Aerojet PR) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY – News) company, announced today that its AJ26 engine successfully completed a hot-fire test yesterday at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital), Aerojet and NASA monitored the full-duration test in support of the Antares(R) rocket program. This is the eighth AJ26 engine to be tested at Stennis.
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