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in News, NASA, Spaceflight, Orion, Space, Lockheed Martin, Space Exploration Vehicle, Aerojet, EFT-1, EM-1Astronauts Practice Orion Crew Recovery as Aerojet Completes Major Subsystems Review for EM-1 Spacecraft
After spending a long period of time traveling in the vacuum of space, astronauts returning to Earth will enter the Earth’s atmosphere at over 20,000 mph and splashdown in the middle of the ocean. Their mission will not be deemed successful, however, until they safely make it back to land, and astronauts at NASA’s Johnson […] More
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in NASA, Space, Wallops Flight Facility, International Space Station, Aerojet, Commercial Space, CYGNUS, Antares, ORB-4, Orbital ATKRepairs Completed at Orbital ATK’s Antares Launch Pad
Less than a year after Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket suffered a catastrophic launch failure on Oct. 28, 2014, repairs to its damaged launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) have been completed in preparation for return to flight. MARS Launch Pad 0A, located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, suffered $15 million in […] More
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Seventh RS-25 Test Fire of 2015 Closes Out First SLS Main Engine Test Series
The most efficient rocket engine in history came to life for the seventh time this year yesterday in southern Mississippi, unleashing over a half-million pounds of thrust and sending a thunderous roar across NASA’s Stennis Space Center during a 535-second full duration hot fire test. The same engine that powered NASA’s now retired space shuttle fleet […] More
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in News, NASA, Heavy Lift Vehicle, Stennis, Space Launch System, Mike Killian, USA, Aerojet, Technology, SLSSLS Development RS-25 Engine Ignites for Successful Full Duration Test Fire #6
The most efficient rocket engine in history came to life again this afternoon under clear blue skies, unleashing over a half-million pounds of thrust and sending a thunderous roar across southern Mississippi and NASA’s Stennis Space Center during a 535-second full duration test fire. The same engine that powered NASA’s now retired space shuttle fleet so […] More
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in NASA, Ares, Constellation, Spaceflight, Shuttle, Orion, Space, Marshall Space Flight Center, Heavy Lift Vehicle, Stennis, Orbital Sciences, ATK, SLS, MPCV, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Obama, Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Launch System, United Launch Alliance, Delta IV, Space Exploration, ULA, Vision for Space Exploration, astronaut, Aerojet, space shuttle, EFT-1, Delta-IV Heavy, SLS, EM-1, QM-1, Orbital ATKOrbital ATK Signs Contract to Provide Launch Abort Motor for Orion
On Tuesday, July 7, Orbital ATK signed a contact with Lockheed Martin to provide the solid rocket motor for the launch abort system of NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The $98 million contract will fund the development and qualification tests of the launch abort motor as well as its first two operational flights on Orion. […] More
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in News, NASA, Mars, Heavy Lift Vehicle, Mike Killian, USA, Aerojet, Technology, SLSSLS Development Engine Test Fire #4 Ignites With Longest Duration Firing Yet
The pace of Space Launch System (SLS) development engine test firing is in full swing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne completed their longest SLS main engine test fire to date on June 25. Secured tightly on the historic A-1 test stand, SLS development engine #0525 came […] More
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in News, Air Force, Space, Propulsion, Craig Covault, Military Space, Department of Defense, Aerojet, TechnologyNew Oxygen Preburner Firings a Major Step Toward Rekindling US Hydrocarbon Rocket Engine Leadership
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) and its rocket engine contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJRD) have achieved a major milestone toward a new U.S. state-of-the-art capability to develop powerful next generation hydrocarbon rocket engines. The achievement involves completion of the first in a series of hot-fire tests on a sub-scale oxygen-rich pre-burner, built by ARJD for the USAF’s […] More
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AmericaSpace Imagery Team Capture Rare Launch of Venerable Delta II
Last Saturday morning, AmericaSpace’s imagery team witnessed a rare pre-dawn liftoff of the highly reliable Delta II booster, carrying the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite into a near-circular, near-polar orbit, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. However, it would appear that the end may be in sight for this venerable and highly reliable vehicle, […] More
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Stennis Space Center Roars to Life With First NASA SLS Development Engine Test Fire
The new year has kicked off nicely for NASA thus far, not just because of a successful fifth SpaceX Dragon resupply launch to the International Space Station (ISS), but also because the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has ushered in a new era with the first static test fire of a development […] More
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Orbital Sciences Contracts ULA’s Atlas-V for Cygnus CRS Flights Until Upgraded Antares is Ready
When Orbital Sciences Corporation launched their Cygnus Orb-3 ISS resupply mission for NASA, nobody would have thought the flight would end in a spectacular explosion, but that’s exactly what happened, and in the time since Orbital has dusted the dirt off their shoes and implemented a contingency plan to overcome the setback quickly in order to […] More
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Awarded Large-Scale 3-D Printing Defense Contract to Develop Liquid Rocket Engine Applications
Last June, leading rocket propulsion manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests with a liquid oxygen/kerosene Baby Bantam demonstration engine—an engine that was entirely constructed with 3-D printing. It was the first rocket engine to be entirely constructed with 3-D printing, and this week that work helped secure Aerojet the award of a defense contract by Wright-Patterson Air […] More
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes CCiCap Work With Boeing’s CST-100 Spacecraft
This week Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it has completed its Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) commitment in support of Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) “space taxi,” one of three low-Earth orbit (LEO) spacecraft being developed with NASA funds, and competing for a NASA contract, to return LEO human spaceflight capability to the United States by 2017. More
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