NASA Completes Full-Duration 'Hot Fire' Test of New RS-25 Engine

NASA completes full-duration 'hot fire' test of new RS-25 engine

NASA fired up a full-duration test of its new RS-25 engine that will power the Space Launch System rocket on Artemis missions to the moon, the space agency announced Monday.

CubeRover1 is Flight-Ready for Lunar Mission

The shoebox-sized CubeRover-1 lunar rover has successfully completed its acceptance test campaign and has been deemed ready for flight to the lunar south pole aboard the Astrobotic Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1).“CubeRover-1’s development, test campaign, and upcoming lunar mission is a culmination of 16 years of development and 37 rover technology contracts totaling over $20+ million." Andrea Davis, AstroboticThe test campaign put the company’s…

NASA Conducts Trial of Innovative RS-25 Rocket Engine

NASA’s Pioneering Test of the RS-25 Engine: A Step Forward in Lunar and Martian Exploration On June 20, 2023, NASA marked a significant milestone in its ambitious space exploration agenda by conducting a successful test of the RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand, located at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay […]

NASA Tests New RS-25 Engine

NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Artemis missions to the Moon. NASA NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Sp…