Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed another major subassembly for NASA’s first J-2X rocket engine. A highly-efficient and versatile engine, the J-2X will help sustain the critical design ...

NASA has awarded Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne a contract change to provide additional sea-level and simulated-altitude ground tests for the J-2X rocket engine. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United ...

NASA conducted a 40-second test of the J-2X rocket engine Sept. 28, the most recent in a series of tests of the next-generation engine selected as part of the Space Launch System architecture that ...

NASA’s Apollo-heritage J-2X cryogenic rocket engine is moving into the manufacturing and full-scale testing phase after completing a day-long critical design review at Marshall Flight Center Nov. 13.

NASA conducted a successful J-2X 500-second test firing on Nov. 9 at the A-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center. Credit: NASA/SSC (PhysOrg.com) -- The best tech gift for propulsion engineers at the ...

As Olympic athletes converge on London with dreams of winning gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, NASA is also setting records while testing the J-2X powerpack at the Stennis Space Center. The ...

NASA will pay Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) a total of $1.2 billion through the end of 2012 to develop and deliver eight J2-X rocket engines for the U.S. aerospace agency's planned Ares family of ...

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies (UTX) co, was awarded a NASA contract valued at $1.2 bln to design, development and test a J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — A Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has won a $1.2 billion NASA contract to design and develop rocket engines for the next generation spacecraft that would someday send astronauts back ...