Tag: SSME
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Development engine continues RS-25 ground testing
The RS-25 engine test team at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi ran the next hot-fire test in the A-1 test stand on Tuesday afternoon. The third test-firing in a series of nine continues the evaluation of engine components built by prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne using modern, updated manufacturing techniques aimed at reducing the cost…
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RS-25 aborts test during production restart development hot fire – still achieves objectives
The RS-25 team at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi began the next development test series on Tuesday afternoon. Development Engine 0525 (E5025) was back in the A-1 test stand at Stennis for the first of nine tests to certify affordability changes and operational upgrades for newly-built engines that will start being delivered by prime…
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RS-25 aborts test during production restart development hot fire – still achieves objectives
The RS-25 team at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi began the next development test series on Tuesday afternoon. Development Engine 0525 (E5025) was back in the A-1 test stand at Stennis for the first of nine tests to certify affordability changes and operational upgrades for newly-built engines that will start being delivered by prime…
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Aerojet Rocketdyne progressing towards six-engine RS-25 production run
As the next series of RS-25 engine test firings at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi nears, prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne is assembling the new components to complete testing and certification of its “production restart” design and fabricating the parts for new flight engines. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RS-25 program is primarily based out of its Canoga…
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SSME returns as AR-22 for rapid reuse demonstration, fired ten times in ten days
Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully completed a nearly two-week long rapid-turnaround test-firing demonstration of a Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) on July 6 at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Primarily built from hardware long in storage, the parts rebuild of the reusable engine is called the AR-22 and it is being qualified for use in the…
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RS-25 program gearing up for production restart, next test series
Restart of RS-25 rocket engine production is ramping up at prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Canoga Park facility in the Los Angeles area. Components for the next test series that will help certify design changes and modernization of manufacturing techniques are already assembled on a development engine at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Workhorse ground…
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RS-25 program gearing up for production restart, next test series
Restart of RS-25 rocket engine production is ramping up at prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Canoga Park facility in the Los Angeles area. Components for the next test series that will help certify design changes and modernization of manufacturing techniques are already assembled on a development engine at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Workhorse ground…
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NASA requests alternative options to RS-25s on SLS core stage – RS-25 will remain uncontested
In the latest of a series of Request For Information (RFI) filings, NASA has called for alternative options to the RS-25 engine that will power the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS). The RFI appears to be aimed at engines to be used after the RS-25Ds left over from the Space Shuttle era…
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RS-25 hot fire pushes SLS engine to record 113 percent thrust level
An RS-25 engine throttled up to 113 percent of rated power for the first time in a milestone test-firing on Wednesday. Development Engine 0528 (E0528) was hot fired for about four minutes in the A-1 test stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to give NASA and prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne a first look…
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RS-25 fires up again to continue 3D printed Pogo testing
NASA and prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne are continuing a fast pace of RS-25 test firings with another single engine test on Thursday afternoon. Following a little more than two weeks after the last test, Development Engine 0528 (E0528) ran through its test in the A-1 test stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Another…