18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
... launch countdown procedure – and igniting the engines. "Saturday’s test was an important step forward to ensure that the core stage... work in May, the team worked through the remaining tests in the series, while also standing down periodically as six...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The successful test, known as a hot fire, is a critical milestone ahead of the... to the Moon. The longer duration hot fire tested a variety of operational conditions, including moving the ...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... “Leaving a trail of debris in its wake, this fragmentation event provides space debris experts with a rare opportunity to test their understanding of such hugely important processes”, explains Tim Flohrer, ESA's Senior Space Debris Monitoring Expert...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
..., which although did not end up rendezvousing with the space station as scheduled, it did complete many crucial tests needed before astronauts are due to fly aboard in 2020. Both companies originally bid to have their designed...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... to Mars. During the approximately three-minute test, called Ascent Abort-2, a test version of the Orion crew module launched at...the 12 data recorders that were ejected during the test capsule’s descent. Analysis of the information will provide...
05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
... an emergency prior to liftoff. This was Boeing’s first flight test with Starliner as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to return... whether everything worked as we expected.” During the test, Starliner’s four launch abort engines, and several ...
