NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center is expanding its partnership with an aerospace manufacturing company to construct a massive rocket testing facility on 150 acres of the facility's land near Bay St.

An Aeon 1 engine undergoes test at a Stennis Space Center test stand. Relativity is taking over another test complex at Stennis to support development of its Terran small launch vehicle. Credit: ...

Jan. 22—As the new year begins, seven of the nine test stands at Stennis are being used for testing. Four stands are being operated by NASA directly, one is under a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement ...

Five decades after it began testing rockets deep in South Mississippi’s woods, the Stennis Space Center and sites like it around the country are trying hard to adapt to a world that includes ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WGNO) — “I don’t know ...

Participants in the ribbon-cutting ceremony were (left to right): Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell, U.S. Rep. Steven ...

The latest hot-fire of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket engine at Stennis Space Center was more than a dramatic plume on the Mississippi horizon, it was a proof point that the agency’s heavy-lift strategy ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Rolls-Royce North America has broken ground on $50 million second jet engine test stand at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss. The ceremony was Monday ...

SPENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (WLOX) - Stennis Space Center Director Dr. Rick Gilbrech says ever since NASA’s announcement last month that the South Mississippi site will test the first Space Launch ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center will provide propulsion system acceptance testing for the Taurus II space launch vehicle, which Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., ...

The complex located at the Center’s A-3 Test Stand will be used to develop and test the Archimedes reusable engines, fast-tracking Rocket Lab’s development of the Neutron launch vehicle. STENNIS SPACE ...