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SLS Thruster Prepared for Second Test Firing

Officials at the American space agency announce the second scheduled test firing of the J-2X thruster it is developing for its next-generation heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. NASA is working with Canoga Park, California-based Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne on this project. The engine is currently installe...

25 April 2012
03:46 GMT

New NASA Engine Tested at Stennis

Officials at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC), in Hancock County, Mississippi, say that their installation has just completed a new series of tests on the next-generation J-2X upper-stage engine that the American space agency will use on upcoming delivery systems.The motor is being developed by engineers a...

22 July 2011
03:39 GMT

NASA Readies New Rocket Motor for First Tests

A new rocket engine design has just been completed at the American space agency, and experts here are eager to put it to the test. The thrusters could be used on the upper stage of the new heavy-lift delivery system that Congress tasked NASA with putting together over the next couple of years.The rocket engine is cal...

14 June 2011
03:38 GMT

First Ares Engine Tests Completed

The space launchers expected to take astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station by 2015 and to carry a manned mission to the Moon and Mars by 2020, as part of NASA's Constellation Program, have completed on Thursday their first series of tests in the early development program. The Ares I rocket alon...

12 May 2008
02:52 GMT


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