![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.
![Orbital’s Taurus 2 Engine Test Fired At NASA Stennis]()
The liquid-fueled AJ-26 engine that will power the first stage of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Taurus 2 rocket was test fired Nov. 10 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., Orbital and NASA announced.
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.
![NASA Announces Changes at Marshall and Stennis]()
WASHINGTON — Patrick Scheuermann will take over as director of NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., replacing Arthur E. “Gene” Goldman effective immediately, according to a March 1 agency news release. Goldman, who has served at Stennis since November 2008, will assume the deputy director slot at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., according to the release.
![Orbital, Aerojet Set To Begin AJ-26 Testing at Stennis]()
Orbital Sciences Corp. and Aerojet said Feb. 24 that a so-called pathfinder version of the AJ-26 engine chosen for Orbital’s Taurus 2 medium-lift rocket had arrived at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for testing.
