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NASA awards Space Launch System grant to MSU

MBJ Staff — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:07:47 +0000

STARKVILLE — NASA has awarded grants to nine universities for advanced development activities for the nation’s next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The agency is providing approximately $2.25 million that will be shared by all the proposals under this NASA Research Announcement to seek solutions to evolve the launch vehicle from its initial [...]

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Testing on rocket engine’s ‘heart’ concludes at Stennis

MBJ Staff — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:09:14 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — NASA has taken another step toward human exploration of new destinations in the solar system. At the agency’s Stennis Space Center, engineers conducted the final test-firing of the J-2X powerpack assembly, an important component of America’s next heavy-lift rocket. The J-2X engine is the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engine [...]

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Association: Budget cuts biggest challenge for space program

MBJ Staff — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:12:03 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — As negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff heat up, little attention has been paid to the impact that mandatory budget cuts would have on the nation’s civil space program and our ability to accurately forecast dangerous storms, according to a release from the Aerospace Industries Association. A new economic impact analysis concludes [...]

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California firm awarded Stennis contract modification

MBJ Staff — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:06:27 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., has received a modification for its facility operations service contract at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, adding facility operating services for the former Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant (MSAAP) following a 14-month transition. The contract modification is valued at $15 million including award terms. [...]

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Lockheed Martin delivers first module for GPS III spacecraft

MBJ Staff — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:05:20 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System III satellites has delivered the first spacecraft’s propulsion core module to the company’s Denver, Col.-area GPS Processing Facility (GPF). According to the company, the milestone represents the program’s first major hardware delivery for GPS III Space Vehicle 1 [...]

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Shuttle’s final journey delayed by bad weather

Associated Press — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:01:30 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — The beginning of space shuttle Endeavour’s final flight to California has been postponed because of weather along the flight route. NASA had planned for the 747 carrying the shuttle to take off from Kennedy Space Center today. The flight is now scheduled to take off at sunrise tomorrow. Low flyovers are still [...]

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Shuttle to buzz Stennis during retirement flight

Associated Press — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:02:32 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — Space Shuttle Endeavour, headed for retirement in California, is scheduled to perform low flyovers — as low as 1,500 feet — as it passes NASA facilities in Mississippi and Louisiana. Stennis Space Center tested the orbiter’s main engines. Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is where the shuttle’s iconic orange external fuel [...]

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Cochran supporting NASA decision on Stennis’ B-2 test stand

MBJ Staff — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:43:31 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss) is supporting a NASA recommendation to rehabilitate and reuse the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center to meet rocket test infrastructure needs of the agency. Cochran said he was informed recently that NASA has allocated $12 million in funding to initiate the rehabilitation and reuse of the [...]

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Rolls-Royce breaks ground on new test stand at Stennis

Associated Press — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:32:35 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — Rolls-Royce North America has broken ground on $50 million second jet engine test stand at the John C. Stennis Space Center. The ceremony was today at the Stennis Center. Rolls-Royce officials say the project will create 35 new jobs. Currently, Rolls-Royce employs 45 workers at the Stennis Space Center. Rolls-Royce’s first jet [...]

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Historic Defense Department purchase upgrades supercomputing capabilities

MBJ Staff — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:12:57 +0000

VICKSBURG and HANCOCK COUNTY — The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DOD HPCMP) has just completed its largest one-time investment in supercomputing capability. The total acquisition is valued at $105 million, and includes $80 million for multiple systems along with an additional $25 million in hardware and software maintenance services. This would [...]

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