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Aerojet Rocketdyne refurbishing RS-25 engines for Artemis 1 launch and production restart testing April 9, 2021 With the completion of another single-engine RS-25 development test, Aerojet Rocketdyne is now refurbishing five engines at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for their next use. After the second test firing of the Retrofit 2 series in the A-1 Test Stand on April 6, development engine 0528 is going through a streamlined refurbishment prior to its next firing as a part of the prod...

NASA, Boeing looking to begin SLS Exploration Upper Stage manufacturing in 2021 March 4, 2021 Manufacturing and assembly development work for the Space Launch System (SLS) Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) is starting to ramp up at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans. NASA’s SLS Program and EUS prime contractor Boeing are preparing to begin construction of the test and flight articles that will be needed to certify and fly the new upper stage’s first launch. A structural test art...

Second prevalve issue delays completion of SLS Core Stage Green Run campaign February 26, 2021 A problem with another one of the eight prevalves in the Artemis 1 Core Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has postponed a second test-firing to wrap up the Green Run campaign. The SLS Program’s first flight article has been installed in the B-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi since January 2020. After a liquid hydrogen prevalve was repaired in November, all ...

A second Hot-Fire test gives the agency a chance to conduct three special gimbaling experiments that weren’t completed in the first attempt.

NASA decides to redo SLS Green Run Static Fire January 30, 2021 As expected, but now official, NASA has announced the decision to redo the Green Run Hot-Fire test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The Core Stage was fired for 67 seconds on January 16 in the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis before the test was ended early. The SLS Program, Core Stage prime contractor Boeing, and RS-25 engine prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne are continu...

NASA prepares for final Green Run test of Artemis I Core Stage NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard joined WAAY 31 News Anchor Will Robinson-Smith for a one-on-one interview prior to Saturdays hot fire test. Posted: Jan 16, 2021 1:19 PM Updated: Jan 16, 2021 4:20 PM Posted By: Will Robinson-Smith As NASA continues to eye a November 2021 launch date for the first rocket in the Artemis program, the space agency prepared to conduct a final test of a key component of the rocket.  January 16 ma...

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NASA SLS Core Stage aborts high-stakes Green Run static fire January 16, 2021 NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program and Core Stage prime contractor Boeing were ready for the big moment of the rocket’s Green Run campaign and the biggest moment in the 10-year old program, a static firing of the stage. After a year of test cases at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, visits from hurricanes, and waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, an eight-minute long, flight-duration Hot-Fire test was plan...

December 23, 2020 NASA partially completed the Green Run Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) test of the Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage on the second attempt in the B-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center. The test was again conducted in secrecy on 20 December, and the test team was able to fill the rocket stage with its liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) propellants for the first time ever; however, a crucial, 10-minute long terminal countdown was aborted inside of the 5 minute mark ...

Canada to become second nation ever to send people to the Moon December 16, 2020 To date, only Americans have travelled to the Moon.  On Artemis 2, that will change when the Canadian Space Agency sends one of its four astronauts on the first-ever crewed flight of NASA’s Orion capsule and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a near two week test flight around the Moon. The as yet un-assigned crewmember will become the first Canadian to travel to lunar orbit and will be one of up-to four cr...