Boeing Fires Up Engine for Delta IV Debut
Photo by Thom Baur © The Boeing Company
ST. LOUIS, October 14, 2002
— The Boeing Company completed a critical
hot-fire rehearsal today at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The test
sets the stage for the first flight of the Boeing Delta IV powered by the
first U.S.-designed and built liquid-fueled rocket engine certified for
flight in a generation.
The test firing of the Delta IV first stage propulsion system — the
Boeing Rocketdyne RS-68 engine — was an integral part of a second
launch dress rehearsal designed to help ensure the success of the rocket’s
first flight — currently scheduled for mid-November. It was also the
last major Delta IV development milestone for the rocket that was built
by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, a business unit of The Boeing Company.
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