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RS-25 test Tuesday. NASA/SSC photo
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STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - NASA conducted its second RS-25 engine hot fire test of the year Feb. 8 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center (SSC), the third hot fire in the latest test series that began in mid-December. NASA is testing RS-25 engines to help power the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) on future deep-space missions. Four RS-25 engines will generate a combined 2 million pounds of thrust to power SLS’s ascent. Each test in the current series is providing operational data to NASA's lead contractor, Aerojet Rocketdyne, on a variety of new components manufactured with state-of-the-art fabrication techniques as the company begins production of new RS-25 engines. (Source:
NASA/SSC, 02/08/22)
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