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Delta IV CBC/RS-68 Engine Test Fire Successful
John Stennis Space Center, Miss., 17 March, 2001 -- At approximately 2:15 p.m. CST this past Saturday at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, Boeing engineers successfully conducted the first in a series of static fire tests on a Boeing Delta IV common booster core with a Boeing Rocketdyne-built RS-68 main engine. Lasting 15 seconds, the test successfully proved out integrated systems such as propulsion, hydraulics, and avionics. The Delta team has completed nearly 1,000 seconds of test time on the RS-68 main engine. The Delta IV test program will also include a five-and-a-half minute full flight duration test that will simulate events of an actual flight profile. Saturday's successful test is being marked as a major milestone in the Delta IV program, which is scheduled to enter service in early 2002.
Photo Credit: Boeing Photo - Thom Baur
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