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January 17, 2012

NASA Moves Shuttle Engines From Kennedy To Stennis

RS-25Ds To Be Repurposed For SLS Heavy Lift Vehicles

The relocation of the RS-25D space shuttle main engine inventory from Kennedy Space Center's Engine Shop in Cape Canaveral, FL, is underway. The RS-25D flight engines, repurposed for NASA's Space Launch System, are being moved to NASA's Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi.

No New Launch Date Set For COTS 2 And 3 Demos

SpaceX's much anticipated launch of an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to dock with ISS has been postponed, with no new launch date set for the test. SpaceX had gotten permission from NASA to combine the COTS 2 and 3 demonstration flights into one.

Debris Of Failed Russian Mars Probe Now Beneath The Pacific

Officials in Russia, US and Europe agree that based on tracking data, it appears the failed Phobos-Grunt Mars probe burned up on re-entry over the Pacific Ocean Sunday afternoon. The BBC reports the spacecraft's last orbit took it over Japan and the Solomon Islands, to the east of Australia and New Zealand. Alexei Zolotukhin of the Russian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti, "Phobos-Grunt fragments have crashed down in the Pacific Ocean." The official Russian conclusion is that the fragments fell about 1,250 kilometers (777 miles) west of the island of Wellington at about 1745Z.