First New 'Human Rated' Engine To Be Developed In Four
Decades
A new series of tests on NASA's new J-2X engine will begin next
week at NASA's Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi. NASA
says the tests on the engine bring it one step closer to the first
human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be
developed in 40 years.
Construction is now underway on an 88,000 sq. ft. hangar in the
Mohave Desert which will house the factory which builds the latest
collaboration between aircraft designer Burt Rutan and Microsoft
co-founder Paul Allen. Their new company, Stratolaunch Systems,
Inc., is based in Huntsville, Alabama, but construction and testing
of the six-engine mothership in the California desert.
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