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John Shannon: Boeing Explores Design Options to Boost SLS Upper Stage Performance
NASA has directed Boeing to identify approaches to increase the performance and payload capacity of a key structure for the Space Launch System, Space News reported Friday. The company will work to modify SLS’s Exploration Upper Stage to carry an additional one or two tons of co-manifested payload such as NASA“™s proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, […] More
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Test Fires RS-25 Engine for NASA Exploration Mission
Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested an engine for NASA‘s second exploration mission at the space agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The RS-25 engine, dubbed as E2063, was fired up for 500 seconds in a move to evaluate the system’s capacity to support the EM-2 exploration mission, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday. RS-25 engines will continuously fire […] More
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NASA Completes Preliminary Design Review of Space Launch System“™s Exploration Upper Stage
NASA has completed the preliminary design review of the exploration upper stage for the Space Launch System rocket designed to bring the Orion spacecraft to deep space by 2021 as part of its first crewed flight mission. “With the completion of this review, our teams will start developing components and materials for the EUS, and […] More
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands $174M NASA Contract to Build Upper Stage Engines for SLS Rocket
Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential eight-year, $174 million contract to develop, test and certify RL10 upper stage engines for NASA“™s Space Launch System rocket. NASA said Saturday the contract will run through Feb. 29, 2024 and covers the production of 10 RL10C-3 engines and two spare engines in support of the SLS rocket“™s second and third space flights […] More