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Antares Rocket Engine Suffers Significant Failure During Testing
Hotfire test of Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ26 engines on the E-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Jan 17, 2014. Credit: NASA
A Russian built rocket engine planned for future use in the first stage of Orbital Sciences Corp. commercial Antares rocket launching to the International Space Station failed during pre-launch acceptance testing on Thursday afternoon, May 22, at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
“There was a test failure at Stennis yesterday afternoon (May 22),” Orbital Sciences spokesman Barry Beneski told Universe Today.
The Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ26 rocket engine failed about(…)
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Post tags: AJ26, Antares rocket, commercial resupply services (CRS), CRS, Cygnus cargo vessel, international space station, ISS, NASA, NASA Wallops, NK-33, Orb-1, Orb-2, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Soviet Union, Yuznoye Design Bureau
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