Tag: B-2
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SLS Core Stage Green Run campaign moving into propulsion system checkouts
Boeing is getting ready to conduct the next phase of the Green Run test campaign for NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage. The second and third test cases were recently completed in the B-2 Test Stand at the NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Test case four begins this week and test case…
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SLS Core Stage Green Run campaign moving into propulsion system checkouts
Boeing is getting ready to conduct the next phase of the Green Run test campaign for NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage. The second and third test cases were recently completed in the B-2 Test Stand at the NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Test case four begins this week and test case…
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Boeing powers up first SLS Core Stage for Green Run system checkouts
Boeing powered up the Core Stage for the first Space Launch System on the B-2 Test Stand at the NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi last week following a long stand down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The first Core Stage is at the outdoor facility for a Green Run test campaign that culminates in…
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Stennis returning as battle to protect SLS maiden launch in 2021 restarts
Hands-on operations with the Space Launch System (SLS) resumed this week, following a lengthy standdown due to the restrictions relating to COVID-19. This included a return to Green Run preparations at the Stennis Space Center, with “limited crews” preparing the Artemis-1 core stage on the B-2 test stand for what will be one of the…
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SLS at Home: Program and Contractors adjusting to telework
With key worksites closed and activity suspended to protect their workforce from the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is working on what it can from home. The program’s headquarters at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, are closed in response to the uncontained virus outbreak. The…
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Boeing works towards SLS Core Stage Green Run checkouts after completing first test
Technicians for NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage prime contractor Boeing completed the first of many tests on the program’s first working article in the test stand at the Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi and are now getting it ready for its crucial pre-launch test-firing later this year. Core Stage-1, which serves as…
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SLS Core Stage in Stennis B-2 Stand to start Green Run campaign
The Green Run test campaign for the first NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage is underway with the rocket now installed in the B-2 position at the B Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi. After waiting several days for acceptable weather conditions, the stage was finally lifted into the stand…
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SLS Core Stage arrives at Stennis for Green Run campaign
The first NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage arrived at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi onboard the Pegasus barge late last weekend to begin the Stage Green Run test campaign that will take up the majority of the year. The stage was transported from its Michoud Assembly Facility factory after weather postponed the…
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Boeing, NASA getting ready for SLS Core Stage Green Run campaign ahead of Stennis arrival
As NASA showed off the first assembled Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage to government stakeholders and media at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans, prime contractor Boeing continued preparations to ship the stage to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as soon as they can. While the TV camera “red lights” were…