Aerospike test

Boeing Rocketdyne's XRS-2200 Linear Aerospike Engine for the X-33 Lockheed Martin reusable single-stage-to-orbit technology demonstrator was fired at full power for the first time last month. The firing, at the NASA Stennie Space Center, Mississippi, lasted 18s.

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