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Senator quizzes NASA administrator about test stand

MBJ Staff — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:31:01 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY – U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) wants NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to continue providing Congress information that will help ensure the upgrade of the Stennis Space Center’s B-2 test stand remains on schedule. Cochran addressed the NASA budget at a Senate Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing where Bolden provided testimony on [...]

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Another series of tests on J-2X engine slated for Stennis

MBJ Staff — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:46:16 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — NASA’s has a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) to new destinations in the solar system. Beginning this month, engineers will conduct a series of tests on the second J-2X development engine, designated number 10002, on the [...]

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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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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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Rolls Royce gets USDA loan to expand test facility

MBJ Staff — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:15:56 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — The Rolls Royce engine testing facility at Stennis Space Center will soon be expanding thanks in part to a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan program that is available only through rural electric cooperatives such as Coast Electric Power Association. The USDA Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant (REDLEG) program allows [...]

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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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NASA conducting more testing of J-2X engine at Stennis

MBJ Staff — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:09:37 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — The J-2X engine is currently on the A-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for an extensive round of tests to build on last year’s successful test firings. The engine will provide upper-stage power for NASA’s evolved Space Launch System (SLS), a new heavy-lift rocket capable of missions to [...]

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Stennis to run new series of tests of J-2X rocket engine

MBJ Staff — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:47:49 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — A new series of tests on the engine that will help carry humans to deep space will begin next week at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The tests on the J-2X engine bring NASA one step closer to the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be developed in 40 [...]

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