NASA Completes Another RS-25 Test Written 20 June 2023

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NASA conducts a hot fire test March 18, 2021, of the core stage for the agency’s SLS rocket on the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center. | Credit: Danny Nowlin; NASA

ExecutiveGov reported that NASA “has completed another hot fire test of an RS-25 certification engine as part of a test series to certify the production of the redesigned engines that will be used for the Space Launch System rocket to support future Artemis missions.” NASA said Friday that the engine “was fired for more than eight minutes at up to 113 percent power, exceeding the required 111 percent level to power the SLS during launch.” The 11th hot fire test “was conducted on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.”
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