Jan 23, 2015
NASA and ATK (NYSE: ATK) have completed installing the first Space Launch System booster qualification motor, QM-1, in a specialized test stand in Utah. The largest solid rocket motor ever built for flight, QM-1 is now being prepared for its static-fire test, which is...
Jan 12, 2015
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, successfully completed the first in a series of hot-fire tests on the RS-25 rocket engine, which will help power NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) and carry humans farther into space than ever before. The test,...
Jan 9, 2015
The new year is off to a hot start for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). The engine that will drive America’s next great rocket to deep space blazed through its first successful test Jan. 9 at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis,...
Jan 9, 2015
NASA’s Stennis Space Center has test fired the first RS-25 (unit E0525) of the Space Launch System (SLS) era on Friday, marking the beginning of a new career for the famous engine. Four of the former Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) are set to power each SLS during...
Dec 18, 2014
Take a look at your current devices. Can you imagine swapping that smartphone for a gigantic cellphone from the 1980s? Surfing the Internet with dial-up speed? Working out to your favorite music with a cassette player? Today’s technology is better, faster and...
Dec 5, 2014
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., (Dec. 5, 2014) – A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Lockheed Martin successfully launched from Space Launch Complex-37 at 7:05 a.m. EST today. This uncrewed flight test...
Dec 5, 2014
Orbiting above Earth attached to the Delta IV second stage, Orion’s telemetry shows all systems working well on NASA’s newest spacecraft designed for astronauts. The next major stages in the flight test will begin with the re-ignition of the second stage engine. That...
Nov 20, 2014
Humanity’s first effort to send humans into deep space and to other planets in our solar system begins in just two weeks. The launch window for NASA’s newest spacecraft, Orion, opens Dec. 4. While the world has been fixed on the Mars Rover and, more recently, a...
Nov 17, 2014
The barrel for the engine section of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, is taken off the Vertical Weld Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The barrel is flight hardware to be used on the first uncrewed test flight of the...
Nov 17, 2014
The Orion spacecraft moved from the Launch Abort Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 11 to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. After arriving at the pad Nov. 12, Orion was lifted for stacking on the United Launch...