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X-33 Aerospike Engine Tests Continue
St. Louis - Feb. 7, 2001 Qualification test firings of the unique engines designed to propel America's X-33 space plane into high-speed, suborbital flight in 2003 began Tuesday at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. The ignition test went the full scheduled duration of 1.1 seconds with no observed anomalies. Initial tandem test firings of the XRS-2200 Linear Aerospike engines will be short bursts such as this, eventually leading to durations required to send the unpiloted vehicle from a launch pad in California to landings in either Utah or Montana. The engines will power the X-33, a half-scale, sub-orbital flight demonstrator of technology required for a reusable launch vehicle. "Initial indications are all test objectives were met in this first test of the flight engines," said Mike McKeon, program manager for the XRS-2200 aerospike engine at the Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business of The Boeing Company. "We are now reviewing the data and preparing to move into longer duration testing." "I'm excited about beginning this phase of testing," said Dr. Don Chenevert, NASA's X-33 project manager at Stennis. "I'm confident the remainder of dual-engine testing will perform equally as well as this initial ignition test." Eight more test firings of the twin flight engines are planned at Stennis before they are delivered to Lockheed Martin's X-33 assembly facility in Palmdale, Calif. Fourteen single-engine test firings of a development configuration of the unique Aerospike engine were successfully completed at Stennis Space Center in May 2000. Boeing Rocketdyne developed the XRS-2200 Aerospike engine at its Canoga Park, Calif., facility. Final engine assembly was done by the NASA/Boeing Rocketdyne team at Stennis Space Center. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links X-33 At Highway 2 Space SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express The latest information about the Commercial Satellite Industry
Stratos Steps Closer To Xantic Acquisition
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jan 5, 2006Stratos Global recently announced it had taken a step closer toward the completion of the acquisition of Xantic, having received positive advice from the Works' Council in the Netherlands, and executed a definitive agreement to purchase Xantic from KPN and Telstra Corporation. |
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