Tag: EM-1
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Aerojet Rocketdyne building new RS-25 engines for recertification testing
Aerojet Rocketdyne (AR) is delivering new RS-25 rocket engine hardware from its U.S. facilities to certify its new production process and is getting ready for the next phase of testing. More than a decade after production was discontinued, the engine maker is setting up assembly lines for major engine components at facilities in California and…
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SLS debut slips to April 2021, KSC teams working through launch sims
Preparations continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first launch of the Space Launch System, or SLS rocket – NASA’s gigantic rocket the agency hopes to use to launch humans to the lunar surface and to the commercial-rocket constructed Lunar Gateway. But while Kennedy prepares for the rocket’s arrival and first mission,…
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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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Artemis 1 Orion halfway through Plum Brook thermal vacuum test
The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 lunar orbit mission is about halfway through two months of around the clock thermal vacuum testing at Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. NASA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin are collecting data on the spacecraft’s behavior and performance while it operates in simulated deep space…
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Boeing negotiating with NASA on future SLS Core Stage production
Now that the first of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stages has shipped from the factory, prime contractor Boeing is refining production plans for the second flight article and continuing negotiations with the civilian space agency for future production. The production team at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans is applying lessons…
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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…
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First SLS Core Stage begins final testing ahead of shipment
NASA and prime contractor Boeing are working to finish assembly and checkout of the first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage next month and send it on its way to a rocket test facility by Christmas. Aerojet Rocketdyne and Boeing attached the last of four RS-25 engines on the stage in early November at NASA’s…
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All four RS-25 Shuttle veterans installed into SLS Core Stage
In a major milestone for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), all four RS-25 engines – veterans of the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) – have been installed into the core stage of the rocket that will conduct the maiden flight of NASA’s new monster rocket on the Artemis-1 mission. SLS will use the full inventory of…
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Turning the SLS engine section over for final Core Stage mate
Boeing’s new plans to finish the first assembly of a NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage horizontally are set to culminate in the use of several new and modified tools to help do something to the engine section it wasn’t originally designed for. All the work to complete standalone assembly of the engine section…