Subscale Booster Motor for Future Artemis Missions Fires Up at Marshall
Engineers successfully fired a 2-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster June 1 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test produced 92,000 pounds of thrust and was done as part of the booster obsolescence and life extension program, providing an upgraded booster design for the evolved configuration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis IX and beyond.
Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science
A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by the Sun. The results come from a long observation with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of Abell 2146, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located about 2.8 billion light-years from Earth.
NASA Supplier Completes Manufacturing Artemis III SLS Booster Motors
The 10 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor segments that will help launch the Artemis III crew on their mission to land on the Moon are complete. Teams finished manufacturing the segments for the mission on May 18. Each of the twin solid rocket boosters is made up of five motor segments that will be stacked with the rest of the booster parts before flight.
Marshall Team Delivers Tiny, Powerful ‘Lunar Flashlight’ Propulsion System
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have built some of the largest rocket engines ever to light up the icy reaches of space. Now Marshall and its commercial partners have delivered one of the smallest propulsion systems in its history, designed to help propel an upcoming NASA mission to shed new light on the Moon’s South Pole – in search of a much more useful type of ice.
Marshall’s Jason Hyder Clears Lines for Crew-4 Mission
Jason Hyder helps ensure the valves, lines, and ducts on launch vehicles are ready for NASA’s SpaceX human spaceflight missions. Hyder is a design and development engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He supports the Commercial Crew Program’s Launch Vehicle Propulsion Engineering team as the subsystem manager for the Valves, Lines, and Ducts branch.
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