The latest RS-25 test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi – aimed at continuing the certification effort to adapt the Space Shuttle era cryogenic rocket engine for the first Space Launch System (SLS) launch in two years time – has been conducted, albeit resulting in an early shutdown. The test involved development Engine 0528, back in the test stand at Stennis for its first test firing in seven years.
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