test fire – Behind The Black

Scaled Composites has done its first test firing of SpaceShipTwo’s engine.

March 5, 2013 1:59 pm Robert Zimmerman

The competition heats up: Scaled Composites has done its first test firing of SpaceShipTwo’s engine.

No word yet on the test result, unfortunately.

NASA engineers today test fired a major component of a refurbished Saturn 5 engine.

January 25, 2013 9:53 am Robert Zimmerman

Back to the future: NASA engineers today test fired a major component of a refurbished Saturn 5 engine.

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NASA successfully test-fired today the upper stage engine of its heavy-lift rocket

November 9, 2011 8:20 pm Robert Zimmerman

NASA successfully test-fired today the upper stage engine of its heavy-lift rocket, part of the Space Launch System, formerly called the Constellation program.