ORLANDO, Fla. – NASA announced Friday it will repeat the hot fire test of the Space Launch System core stage next month after the first attempt was halted well short of the desired eight-minute run.
The Space Launch System core stage was slated to fire its four engines on the test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Jan.
16 for eight minutes but barely fired for one minute. The hydraulic system for one engine exceeded safety parameters, NASA officials said, and flight computers shut everything down 67 seconds into the ignition.
NASA officials said they were first reviewing all the data before deciding if another Green Run test would need to happen before the hardware is brought down to Kennedy Space Center for launch.