WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The successful test was performed on Thursday at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as part of a broader test series, NASA said in a Thursday release.
"The tests are designed to validate a new engine controller and how the RS-25 engine design functions in the SLS operating environment, which has functional and environmental differences from the Space Shuttle," NASA said.
According to the space agency, there is already a healthy stock of RS-25 flight engines, most of which were used for Shuttle flights.
NASA’s SLS rocket that will be powered by the RS-25 engines will carry the Orion spacecraft about three to five days away from Earth, during the early missions.
