NASA To Repeat SLS Hot Fire

Irene Klotz February 01, 2021
SLS
NASA's previous SLS hot-fire test ended early.
Credit: NASA
NASA has decided to repeat the static test fire of the first Space Launch System (SLS) core stage following an abbreviated burn of the vehicle’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines two weeks ago. The full-duration, 8-min. engine firing at Stennis Space Center’s B-2 test stand in Mississippi is...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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