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New ‘brain’ for RS-25 engine is no technological flashback to the ’80s
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...
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SLS: Development on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket blazes forward with RS-25 test
BAY ST. Louis, MS — 2015 is off to a hot start for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). The RS-25, the powerful engine that will propel America’s next heavy-lift rocket into deep space completed its first...
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NASA fires up mini rockets for SLS base heating tests
Engineers from NASA’s Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama are collaborating with the Buffalo, New York based company CUBRC Inc. to conduct a series of tests that will provide important...
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NASA signs new Space Launch System engine contract
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have agreed to resume production of the RS-25 engine for use on the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS). Image Credit: NASA On Monday, Nov. 23, NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne tests first flight-ready RS-25
NASA engineers conduct a successful test firing of RS-25 rocket engine No. 2059 on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis. The hot fire marks the first test of an RS-25 flight engine for NASA’s new Space Launch...
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RS-25 engine tested for NASA’s Space Launch System
The latest development test of the RS-25 engine occurred July 29 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Photo Credit: NASA After an early shutdown some two weeks ago, NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully...
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NASA discusses SLS and Orion progress at ‘Day of Mars’ event
An artist’s concept of Orion docked with a nuclear thermal-engined Mars Transfer Vehicle. Image Credit: NASA NEW ORLEANS — Before wowing onlookers with the sights and sounds related to testing an RS-25...
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Space Launch System (SLS) engine testing update
RS-25 engine № 0528 tested at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC) on August 18, 2016, in preparation for the SLS. Photo Credit: Curt Godwin / SpaceFlight Insider BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — This past week, on...
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RS-25 engine test firing seen from drone
A drone captures never-before-seen views of a test firing of an RS-25 engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Photo Credit: NASA Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi,...
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NASA conducts 13th test of Space Launch System RS-25 engine
An RS-25 rocket engine is tested at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the 13th such test for NASA’s new Space Launch System. Photo Credit: NASA The powerful RS-25 engine that will be used on...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne tests third SLS engine controller
Aerojet Rocketdyne tests the third RS-25 flight controller on a developmental engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on July 25, 2017. Photo & Caption Credit: NASA Propulsion hardware testing for...
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RS-25 engine flight controller completes 500-second test
August 9, 2017, RS-25 engine test at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Photo Credit: NASA On Wednesday, August 9, NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne conducted a 500-second test of an RS-25...
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NASA conducts 5th test of RS-25 engine flight controller unit
NASA capped off summer with a 500-second hot-fire test of a fifth RS-25 engine flight controller unit on the A-1 Test Stand at its Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Aug. 30,...
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Final RS-25 hot-fire test of 2017 completed
An Aerojet Rocketdyne technician inspects the 3-D printed pogo accumulator assembly on an RS-25 development engine at the Aerojet Rocketdyne facility located at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Photo &...
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Aeroject Rocketdyne starts off a busy 2018 with hot fire of RS-25 engine
Archive image of prior RS-25 test, Feb. 22, 2017 , Shown from the viewpoint of an overhead drone. Photo Credit: KSC Unmanned Aerial Systems Team NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne conducted another successful...
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RS-25 completes successful second test fire of 2018
Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine controller test Feb. 1, 2018. Photo Credit: NASA On Feb. 1, 2018, a team of engineers at NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne and Syncom Space Services engineers and...
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Lucky 113: NASA tests RS-25 engine at highest-ever power level
An RS-25 engine undergoes a test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Photo credit: NASA Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center conducted a test of the Space Launch System’s (SLS) RS-25 engine, pushing...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne test fires legacy RS-25 engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center
An RS-25 rocket engine ignites for an engine controller test conducted at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Sept. 25, 2018. Photo Credit: Matt Haskell / The Aerospace Geek STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. —...
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Gallery: RS-25 test fired at Stennis
NASA plans to use the RS-25 on the first flights of the agency’s new Space Launch System. Photo Credit: Matt Haskell / The Aerospace Geek STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss — Aerojet Rocketdyne tested one of...
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Flight controllers for first four Space Launch System missions delivered to...
Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engines at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo Credit: Jason Rhian / SpaceFlight Insider The flight controllers for the first planned flights of NASA’s massive...
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