NASA Hot Fires Flight SLS Engine For 500 Seconds

Credit: NASA
Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center gave the first flight article of the RS-25 rocket engine modified for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) a full-duration static test Thursday, firing the surplus space shuttle main engine for 500 sec. The old engine, modified with modern controller...

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