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NASA Stennis Space Center

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NASA Stennis Space Center, located in Mississippi, is a NASA field center and America's largest rocket propulsion testing facility. Stennis plays a crucial role in the space industry as the agency's program manager for rocket propulsion testing, where it conducts and manages NASA propulsion test programs. It has supported testing for the Apollo program, the Space Shuttle, and is currently involved with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

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Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, United States
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NASA Stennis Space Center is the source location for flight software loads used with the ASTRA Engineering Unit.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.8Feb 16, 2024Sidus Space Successfully Integrates NASA ASTRA Engineering Unit into LizzieSat FlatSat

Evolution Space will test its solid rocket motors at NASA Stennis Space Center’s E-3 Test Complex.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Oct 10, 2023Evolution Space to develop solid rocket motors at NASA Stennis

Relativity Space has been testing Aeon R combustion devices at NASA Stennis Space Center since mid-2022 at full scale and 100% power.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Apr 12, 2023Relativity Space Shares Updated Go-to-Market Approach for Terran R, Taking Aim at Medium to Heavy Payload Category with Next-Generation Rocket

Test data from the 2022-05-04 E-2 test fire at NASA Stennis Space Center indicate that mixture ratios and combustion efficiency are near or at the theoretical maximum and that further material performance improvement requires increased combustion pressure.

CapabilityValue 4.6May 26, 2022USSF Awards Launcher Million$ To Continue E-2 Rocket Engine Development

Launcher Space tested the E-2 engine at NASA Stennis Space Center and demonstrated the highest-performing liquid oxygen and kerosene rocket engine combustion chamber in the United States.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.3May 26, 2022USSF Awards Launcher Million$ To Continue E-2 Rocket Engine Development

In December 2021 Relativity Space built a new dual-bay test stand called the E4B test stand at NASA Stennis Space Center in Stennis, Mississippi.

CapabilityPlanValue 3.5Feb 13, 2022Relativity Space Announced the Qualification for Their Terran 1 Rocket.

Relativity Space secured a 20-year exclusive use lease for a 220,000-square-foot factory at the NASA Stennis Space Center.

RelationshipsPlanGeneralValue 4.0Feb 28, 2020Relativity Space Secures New Headquarters Facility In The Heart Of Southern California’S Next-Generation Aerospace Community

Relativity Space secured a 20-year exclusive-use lease for a 220,000-square-foot factory at NASA Stennis Space Center.

RelationshipsGrowthValue 4.0Oct 1, 2019Relativity Space Closes $140 Million Series C Funding Round Led by Bond and Tribe Capital

Relativity Space completed more than 200 engine hotfire tests at NASA Stennis Space Center.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Oct 1, 2019Relativity Space Closes $140 Million Series C Funding Round Led by Bond and Tribe Capital

Relativity holds a 9-year exclusive-use lease for a 220,000-square-foot factory at the NASA Stennis Space Center.

RelationshipsValue 4.2Sep 30, 2019Relativity Space Signs Launch Services Agreement for Multiple Launches with Momentus on Terran 1, World’s First 3D Printed Rocket

The nine NASA centers that received independent assessments from The Aerospace Corp. under the 2011 contracts include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, Glenn Research Center, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Stennis Space Center, and NASA Langley Research Center.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Aug 21, 2019NASA awards Aerospace Corp. contract worth up to $621 million
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