{"id":11907,"date":"2021-01-16T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-sls-core-stage-test-firing-ends-early\/"},"modified":"2021-01-16T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:36:12","slug":"video-sls-core-stage-test-firing-ends-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-sls-core-stage-test-firing-ends-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: SLS core stage test-firing ends early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/501300904\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The four RS-25 engines at the bottom of NASA\u2019s first Space Launch System core stage shut down about a minute into a ground test-firing Saturday that was supposed to last more than eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The four Aerojet Rocketdyne-built engines ignited at 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT) Saturday on the B-2 test stand at NASA\u2019s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The engines, leftovers from the space shuttle program, throttled up to generate 1.6 million pounds of thrust.<\/p>\n<p>But a technical fault caused an early shutdown of the engines, cutting short the planned eight-minute firing. Going into the test, officials from NASA and Boeing \u2014 the prime contractor for the SLS core stage \u2014 said they needed to fire the four engines for about 250 seconds \u2014 a bit more than four minutes \u2014 to gather all the data needed to make the test a success.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for continuing coverage of the SLS core stage\u2019s Green Run tests in Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four RS-25 engines at the bottom of NASA\u2019s first Space Launch System core stage shut down about a minute into a ground test-firing Saturday that was supposed to last more than eight minutes. The four Aerojet Rocketdyne-built engines ignited at 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT) Saturday on the B-2 test stand at NASA\u2019s Stennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[864,304,1700,1825,670,1826,1545,25],"class_list":["post-11907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerojet-rocketdyne","tag-artemis","tag-artemis-1","tag-b-2-test-stand","tag-boeing","tag-green-run","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}