By Ben Evans, on May 2nd, 2020 
The first SLS rocket for NASA’s Artemis moon missions rolls out of its assembly facility. Photo: NASA
With four years to go before human bootprints again dot the dusty surface of the Moon, NASA has awarded a contract worth $1.79 billion to Sacramento, Calif.-headquartered Aerojet Rocketdyne to fabricate 18 additional RS-25 engines for the […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Mike Killian, on October 22nd, 2019 
Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA/Jude Guidry
NASA is full steam ahead with the Space Launch System, as years […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Ben Evans, on November 24th, 2015 
The opening salvo of four Space Launch System (SLS) flights, beginning with Exploration Mission (EM)-1 in November 2018, will contain a core stage powered by four clustered RS-25D engines. Image Credit: NASA
More than four years since three of its kind were last fired in anger, on 8 July 2011, to deliver Atlantis’ […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Scott Johnson, on September 8th, 2013 One final test for J-2X Engine No. 10002. Photo Credit: NASA / Stennis Space Center
BAY ST. LOUIS, Ms — On Thursday, Sept. 5, NASA along with Aerojet Rocketdyne conducted a test firing of a J-2X rocket engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The hot-fire was conducted in order to test the engine […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Jason Rhian, on September 2nd, 2013 [youtube_video]http://youtu.be/iRcsP0hWvyA[/youtube_video]
Video courtesy of AmericaSpace
NEW ORLEANS, La — During a visit to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) for the ribbon-cutting for the new Vertical Weld Center, AmericaSpace spoke with NASA’s Dan Dumbacher and William Gerstenmaier regarding the current state of the program that the center will be used to help […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Emily Carney, on August 2nd, 2013 NASA has completed a design review and has also constructed a key element of the rocket’s design. In short, this week has seen significant progress in the development of the space agency’s new heavy-lift booster. Photo Credit: NASA
NASA announced Wednesday, July 31 that the space agency had concluded the preliminary design review […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Jason Rhian, on June 27th, 2013 NASA’s William Gerstenmaier discusses the J-2X rocket engine with Stennis Space Center Director Rick Gilbrech and members of Aerojet Rocketdyne at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Photo Credit: Jason Rhian / AmericaSpace
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss — At NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi the space agency, along with contractors Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne, […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Jason Rhian, on June 24th, 2013 At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility on Friday June 23 dignitaries from the space agency and its contractors unveiled a new Friction Stir Welding machine. This new tool will be used to form the core stage of the Space Launch System. Photo Credit: Jason Rhian / AmericaSpace
NEW ORLEANS, La — NASA’s Michoud Assembly […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Ben Evans, on June 23rd, 2013 A row of Rocketdyne-built RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engines just before being shipped to Stennis Space Center for use on the Space Launch System program. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com
Last week, California-based Aerojet and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne—the two premier rocket-power providers in the United States—finalized their merger, almost a year […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By NASA, on June 20th, 2013 Jonathon Walden is the lead designer for the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Stage Adapter (MSA) being manufactured at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The MSA will attach the Orion spacecraft to a Delta IV rocket for its 2014 Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). It also will provide early flight experience for SLS’s […]
Like this:Like Loading...
|
|
