The Space Launch System rocket's RS-25 engine was fired up for the “final round of certification testing ahead of production ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...

NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test lasted about "eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same ...

June 23 (UPI) --NASA fired up a full-duration test of its new RS-25 engine that will power the Space Launch System rocket on Artemis missions to the moon, the space agency announced Monday. NASA ...

The latest hot-fire of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket engine at Stennis Space Center was more than a dramatic plume on the Mississippi horizon, it was a proof point that the agency’s heavy-lift strategy ...

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved a key milestone as it began testing the engine that will power the X-59, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – In December, NASA will begin testing core components of a rocket engine from the Apollo era. Data from the tests will help NASA build the next generation engine that will power the ...

But a date has still yet to be set for the X-59's first flight. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's revolutionary X-59 jet is ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - NASA and L3Harris Technologies successfully conducted a full-duration hot fire test of a second RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. The engine will ...

As the first flight of NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft draws near, the agency seems not to waste any chance when it comes to testing the plane’s systems. Why, from time to time it even goes off ...