![Aerojet Rocketdyne completes assembly of its first AR1 rocket engine]()
Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed the assembly of the first AR1, a new rocket engine funded by the U.S. Air Force.
![Launcher to test engines at Stennis]()
Small launch vehicle startup Launcher has signed an agreement with the Stennis Space Center to test engines at the Mississippi facility.
![Coronavirus pandemic to halt SLS testing]()
NASA has elevated two centers to the highest level of its pandemic response plan, halting preparations for a major test of the Space Launch System.
![Relativity to build rocket factory at Stennis]()
Small launch vehicle developer Relativity announced June 11 it will establish a production facility for its Terran 1 rocket at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
![Relativity reaches deal to use Stennis test stand]()
Relativity, the startup company developing small launch vehicles using additive manufacturing technologies, announced March 21 an agreement with NASA’s Stennis Space Center to take over one of its test stands.
![NASA agreement sign of Stratolaunch engine development program]()
An agreement to do engine testing at a NASA center is the latest sign that Stratolaunch is considering developing its own launch vehicle for its giant aircraft.
![GAO Rejects Protest of $1.2 Billion NASA Services Contract]()
Syncom Space Services is moving ahead on a $1.2 billion support services contract at NASA’s Stennis Space Center and Michoud Assembly Facility after the U.S. Government Accountability Office denied a protest from Jacobs Technology.
![NASA Conducts Test of SLS Main Stage Engine]()
Tests of the main-stage engine for NASA’s planned Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket continued at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as the agency fired up an RS-25 engine for the third time this year.
![NASA’s A-3 Test Stand Branded a ‘$349 Million Monument to its Drift’]()
Sure, Bloomberg wrote almost the same story nearly a year ago. But the Washington Post's feature story puts NASA in a rather harsh spotlight just as a new Congress is about to be seated.
![SpaceX Could Begin Testing Methane-fueled Engine at Stennis Next Year]()
SpaceX will perform these tests at Stennis’ E-2 test facility, which will require an upgrade to accommodate the full Raptor engine.
NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi awarded Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., a one-year contract option worth $51.8 million to continue supporting NASA missions and more than 30 federal and state agencies that share or use Stennis facilities and services.
NASA awarded a $25.9 million contract Dec. 1 to ISS Action Inc. of Jamaica, N.Y., to provide protected services at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss.
![J-2X Engine Test Fired at NASA Stennis Space Center]()
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., test fired a J-2X engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Missouri in mid-July.
![AJ-26 Shuts Down Early During Stennis Testing]()
An Aerojet AJ-26 engine, the main propulsion system for one of NASA’s commercial space-cargo haulers, shut down prematurely during a test firing at the Stennis Space Center June 9.
Houston-based Lockheed Martin Services has unseated incumbent Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., to win a NASA contract worth $95.7 million to manage test operations at Stennis Space Center, the agency’s sprawling rocket testing facility near Bay St. Louis, Miss.
