NASA's Ares I Rocket First Stage Igniter Successfully Tested

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Mar 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has completed a successful test firing of the igniter that will be used to start the Ares I rocket first stage motor.

NASA Successfully Tests Parachute for Ares Rocket

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Mar 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The test took place Feb. 28 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz.

Ares I Five Segment Development Motor on the Move

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Apr 20, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- On April 16, NASA moved the first segment of the Ares I rocket's five segment development motor, or DM-1, from ATK Space System's production facility in Promontory, Utah, to the nearby test ...

Final Piece Of NASA's Next-Generation Rocket Heads To Launch Site

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Mar 13, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at ...

NASA to begin developing Ares rockets

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Dec 17, 2007 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 2

The U.S. space agency said it will begin testing core rocket engine components from the Apollo era this month to help build the Ares rocket.

NASA's New High-Performance Engine for Ares Rocket Passes Review

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Nov 14, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review Thursday at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

NASA puts new Ares I-X rocket on launch pad for test flight

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Oct 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter century, a new vehicle is sitting at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ares I-X flight test vehicle arrived at the pad ...

NASA Completes Assembly of Ares I-X Test Rocket

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Aug 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter-century a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA's Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ares I-X rocket, its simulated crew module ...

NASA Conducts First Test On New Motor For The Ares I Rocket

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Sep 12, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (9) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed first-round testing of a critical motor for NASA's new Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a two-stage rocket ...

NASA Completes Review Milestone for Ares I First Stage

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Jun 13, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

NASA has completed the preliminary design review for the first stage of the Ares I rocket -- giving overall approval for the agency's technical design approach. This review brings NASA one step closer to developing ...

Test in Development of NASA's New Crew Rocket is Successful

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Jan 30, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of NASA's next-generation crew launch vehicle, the Ares I rocket, took another step forward Thursday as Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, successfully tested a critical piece. ATK ...

NASA Successfully Tests Parachute for Ares Rocket

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Jul 25, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The drogue parachute is designed to slow the rapid descent of the spent first-stage ...

First Rocket Parts Of NASA's New Launch System Arrive In Florida

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Nov 04, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first major flight hardware of the Ares I-X rocket has arrived in Florida to begin preparation for the inaugural test flight of the agency's next-generation launch system. The test flight ...

Building a New Rocket for the Nation

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Sep 17, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (12) | 1

The Ares I rocket, America's next flagship in space, is now in development by NASA and its industry partners, and soon will carry human explorers and new missions of discovery to the moon and beyond. And thousands ...

NASA Updates Shuttle Atlantis Target Launch Date

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Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is targeting Nov. 16 for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.