Rocketdyne linear aerospike completes first tandem test
Twin Rocketdyne XRS-2200 linear aerospike rocket engines fired in tandem for the first time Tuesday in a short "burp test" designed to test ignition. A spokesman for Stennis Space Center in Mississippi said the 1.12-second combustion wave ignition test came at 10 p.m. EST, and produced "no observed...
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