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NASA Awards Construction Contract For Rocket Engine Testing
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 NASA signed a contract Tuesday with Roy Anderson Corp. of Gulfport, Miss., for a general construction package on the A-3 test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract's value is not to exceed $45 million. Contract work includes installation of the general mechanical and electrical support for the A-3 test stand. The A-3 test stand is being built at Stennis to test the J-2X engine for NASA's Constellation Program. The Constellation Program is developing next-generation spacecraft systems to send astronauts to the International Space Station, the moon, Mars and destinations beyond. The J-2X engine will power the upper stage of the Ares I crew exploration vehicle and the Earth departure stage of the Ares V cargo launch vehicle. The A-3 test stand will allow engineers to analyze the J-2X engine's operating parameters by simulating conditions at altitudes as high as 100,000 feet. For these simulations, the test stand will generate approximately 4,620 pounds per second of steam and use it to reduce the engine test cell pressure. Construction began on the A-3 test stand in summer 2007, with the first test scheduled for 2012. The structure is the first large test stand to be built since the south Mississippi site was established in the 1960s. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Virtual Journey To Mars To Begin On 31 March 2009
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 27, 2009The isolation study 'Mars500' focuses on the question how human beings can stay physically and psychologically fit in the extreme conditions of a journey to Mars. On 31 March 2009, the very ambitious isolation experiment will start at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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