Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage prime contractor Boeing reached a long-awaited milestone this week with completion of standalone work on the engine section for the first vehicle. The most complex section of NASA’s new rocket stage is well behind more than one schedule revision, and because it is the critical path in the schedule the delays have pushed some estimates for the vehicle’s first launch into 2021.
Following a quick end to a hot-fire test two months ago, NASA’s test team at…
Activation of the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for the “Green…
NASA is yet to release any information as to why the latest RS-25 test in…
This year’s decision to increase and extend use of the initial “Block 1” operating configuration…
The RS-25 engine test team at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi ran the next…
A ground test RS-25 engine has conducted another test firing Thursday afternoon while held in…
The Boeing team is working to finish the integration of the first engine section element of…
The RS-25 team at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi began the next development test…
As the next series of RS-25 engine test firings at the Stennis Space Center in…
Restart of RS-25 rocket engine production is ramping up at prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Canoga…
In the latest of a series of Request For Information (RFI) filings, NASA has called…
NASA and prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne are continuing a fast pace of RS-25 test firings…
The RS-25 test team conducted their first hot-fire test of the year in the A-1…
Following closely on the heels of certifying one set of RS-25 engine upgrades and updates…
Engineers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans are using a pathfinder RS-25…
The RS-25 test team at Stennis Space Center hot-fired an untested flight engine on the…
A little more than two weeks after the last test, the RS-25 test team acceptance…
The RS-25 engine team has conducted the latest engine controller unit (ECU) hot-fire acceptance test…
The RS-25 engine team has performed the latest hot-fire test in the A-1 test stand…