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Canoga Park company's engines power "business end" of Artemis II rocket
A Canoga Park company’s rocket engines will provide the powerful thrust that sends the astronauts of Artemis II on an around-the-moon journey that will take them thousands of miles deeper into space than even their Apollo-era colleagues.
NASA's Artemis II mission will launch with SLS rocket engines that have flown multiple times on past space shuttle missions. Here's their story.
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Canoga Park-built RS-25 engines will power Artemis II’s final push
NASA has installed all four RS-25 engines onto the Artemis II Space Launch System core stage, completing a major assembly milestone for the first crewed lunar mission since the Apollo era. Built at a factory in Canoga Park,
Hyderabad-based Abyom SpaceTech and Defence has successfully completed the hot fire test of its BSE-II liquid rocket engine, marking a key step towards developing reusable launch vehicles and advancing indigenous space propulsion and testing capabilities.
UK space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has conducted the first test of a prototype exhaust system for a nuclear fusion rocket engine that could dramatically cut transit times for missions to Mars and beyond.
India's space program is at a critical juncture as ISRO plans to acquire advanced semi-cryogenic rocket engines from Russia to enhance its launch capabilities
Russia says it will no longer send rocket engines to the United States, in retaliation for sanctions. The head of the Russian state space agency Roscosmos said it will also stop servicing rocket engines it has supplied to the U.S., according to Reuters.
"We start building the engines from the raw material," Mark Aldaba told NBC Los Angeles, walking through the machining, welding, and assembly work that happens on the Canoga Park floor. The local profile,