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Location where rocket engines may be tested on the ground, under controlled conditions
A rocket engine test facility is a location where rocket engines may be tested on the ground, under controlled conditions. A ground test program is generally
Rocket_engine_test_facility
United States historic place
Rocket Engine Test Facility was the name of a facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center, formerly known as the Lewis Research Center, in Ohio. The purpose
Rocket_Engine_Test_Facility
NASA testing facility in Mississippi
Mississippi–Louisiana border. As of 2012[update], it is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. There are over 50 local, state, national, international, private
Stennis_Space_Center
SpaceX family of liquid-fuel rocket engines
Raptor is a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. It is the third rocket engine in history designed with a full-flow staged combustion
SpaceX_Raptor
Launch facilities used by SpaceX
suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. It is also where it tests all Merlin and Raptor engines, and flight
SpaceX_facilities
U.S. rocket engine test facility in New Mexico
White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a NASA rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space
White_Sands_Test_Facility
Proposed hybrid ramjet and rocket engine
Rocket Engine) was a concept under development by Reaction Engines Limited for a hypersonic precooled hybrid air-breathing rocket engine. The engine was
SABRE_(rocket_engine)
NASA research facility in Ohio
liquid rocket engines. The 6,400-acre (2,600 ha) NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility or just Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility
Glenn_Research_Center
Facilities
development and office facility near Seattle, Washington. By 2003 Blue Origin was buying land in west Texas for a rocket engine test facility and, subsequently
Blue_Origin_facilities
Rocket engine test facility
The S-IC Stage Static Facility, also known as Test Stand 4670 and the Advanced Engine Test Facility, at the George C. Marshall Spaceflight Center (MSFC)
Test_Stand_4670
US Nuclear thermal rocket engine project (1956–1973)
The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA; /ˈnɜːrvə/) was an American nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly
NERVA
American public spaceflight company
atmosphere transition. In November 2022, Rocket Lab cut the ribbon on an engine test facility for the Archimedes engine at NASA's Stennis Space Center. In March
Rocket_Lab
NASA research facility in Virginia
propulsion engine design and performance. In 1934 the world's largest wind tunnel was constructed at Langley Field with a 30-by-60-foot (9.1 m × 18.3 m) test section;
Langley_Research_Center
NASA research facility in Southern California
served to cool it, similar to how a conventional rocket engine cools its nozzle. Also, instrumented crash test dummies were in the airplane for the impact
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Armstrong_Flight_Research_Center
Liquid fuel rocket engine
liquid-fuel rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab
Archimedes_(rocket_engine)
American aerospace company
New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles
Blue_Origin
American launch vehicle manufacturer
the Stennis Space Center to test engine components and eventually full-scale test their fully integrated rocket engines. In June 2019, Relativity Space
Relativity_Space
Industrial research and development facilities in California
mid-1950s,[citation needed] designed and tested several rocket engines at the facility. They included engines for the Army's Redstone (an advanced short-range
Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
US Air Force base near Tullahoma, Tennessee, United States
flight simulation test facilities in the world. The center operates 58 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space
Arnold_Air_Force_Base
Indian semi-cryogenic rocket engine
future reusable rockets based on RLV technology demonstrations. The engine in September 2019 reportedly had become ready to begin testing in Ukraine and
SE-2000
US Air Force base in California
Directorate maintains a rocket engine test facility on and around Leuhman Ridge, just east of Rogers Dry Lake. This facility traces its roots to early
Edwards_Air_Force_Base
Facility used to test engines
An engine test stand is a facility used to develop, characterize and test engines. The facility, often offered as a product to automotive OEMs, allows
Engine_test_stand
Partially-reusable medium-lift launch vehicle
2025. Test firing of Neutron's Archimedes engine occurred at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. In September 2025, Rocket Lab held
Rocket_Lab_Neutron
1998 video game
Freeman kills a giant creature inside a rocket engine test facility and uses an underground monorail to reach a rocket silo. He launches a satellite to help
Half-Life_(video_game)
ever developed Tested but never flown Most powerful Hydrogen-fueled engine ever conceived World's most powerful liquid fueled rocket engine Most powerful
Comparison of orbital rocket engines
Comparison_of_orbital_rocket_engines
Two-stage small launch vehicle, 200-300 kg to LEO
Rutherford engines are the first electric-pump-fed engine to power an orbital-class rocket. Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon
Rocket_Lab_Electron
Space Shuttle and SLS main engine
The RS-25, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle and is used
RS-25
Reusable superheavy-lift general-purpose launch vehicle
The facility has two main test stands: one horizontal stand for both engine types and one vertical stand for sea-level-optimized rocket engines. In the
SpaceX_Starship
Type of rocket engine
The aerospike engine is a type of rocket engine that maintains its aerodynamic efficiency across a wide range of altitudes. It belongs to the class of
Aerospike_engine
Australian space company
venture-funded Australian aerospace company that is developing hybrid-propellant rocket engines and associated technologies to support the deployment of a low-cost
Gilmour_Space_Technologies
Soviet super heavy-lift launch vehicle (1965–1972)
eight and four hot staged engines respectively, planned to bring the rocket to low Earth orbit. Dangers of the complex engine cluster and fuel feeder systems
N1_(rocket)
American super heavy-lift expendable rocket
one J-2 engines respectively. IBM and MSFC designed the rocket's instrument unit. The rocket first launched in the November 1967 Apollo 4 test flight.
Saturn_V
Method used to accelerate spacecraft
vacuum chamber to test fully. Rockets are usually tested at a rocket engine test facility well away from habitation and other buildings for safety reasons
Spacecraft_propulsion
Topics referred to by the same term
(commonly abbreviated RF), a baseball statistic Rocket engine test facility, also known as a rocket test range Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized
Range
Soviet launch vehicle
engine. It was designed to replace the Proton rocket, but lost a 1993 competition to the Angara rocket. A non-functional prototype ("structural test vehicle")
Energia_(rocket)
Weapons test site in San Diego, CA
Sycamore Canyon Test Facility is a rocket and weapons test site located east of MCAS Miramar in northern San Diego, in Scripps Ranch. A number of weapons
Sycamore_Canyon_Test_Facility
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Edwards Air Force Base's Rocket Engine Test Facility) before being discharged in 1958. During his service, he secured
Owsley_Stanley
Explosion of a Blue Origin rocket
On May 28, 2026, a New Glenn rocket operated by Blue Origin exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Launch Complex
2026 New Glenn rocket explosion
2026_New_Glenn_rocket_explosion
Supersonic atmospheric jet engine
In 1939, Merkulov did further ramjet tests using a two-stage rocket, the R-3. He developed the first ramjet engine for use as an auxiliary motor of an
Ramjet
County in Mississippi, United States
is home to the John C. Stennis Space Center, NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. The county was severely damaged from Hurricane Katrina on August
Hancock_County,_Mississippi
Rocket engine in SpaceX Falcon launch vehicles
Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX. They are currently a part of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, and were formerly
SpaceX_Merlin
United States historic place
in three steps: Engine testing Static rocket testing Test launches First, prototype engines are tested in a Rocket engine test facility, where the most
Redstone_Test_Stand
Royal Air Force station in Cumbria, England
consisted of four concrete stands into which the engines could be mounted for test firing. Two rocket-firing stands themselves stood at Greymare Hills
RAF_Spadeadam
Family of hybrid rocket engines
RocketMotorTwo (RM2) is a family of hybrid rocket engines developed for the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. The first-generation
RocketMotorTwo
Large liquid methane fuelled staged-combustion rocket engine by Blue Origin
The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) is a liquid rocket engine developed by Blue Origin. It uses liquefied methane fuel and operates on an oxygen-rich staged combustion
BE-4
Overview of NASA field centers
after U.S. senator John C. Stennis. The center serves as a major rocket engine test facility and is used by government and commercial organizations. Johnson
NASA_facilities
Non-airbreathing engine used to propel a missile or vehicle
A rocket engine, also known as a rocket motor, is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass
Rocket_engine
Interplanetary radio communication station
rest of the facility was dismantled and knocked down. Its foundation, access road and parking area are all that remains of the facility. As of late 2016
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex
American launch vehicle company
1999. A rocket engine test facility was successfully established in McGregor, Texas. There, the company conducted liquid-fueled engine tests, added several
Beal_Aerospace
Science museum in Huntsville, Alabama
(DPS/APS) engines for the Lunar Module. Engines from the V-2 engine to NERVA to the Space Shuttle Main Engine are on display as well. The rocket park area
U.S._Space_&_Rocket_Center
American super heavy-lift expendable rocket first stage of Saturn V, test unit
Administration, to be a static test rocket. The main role of the S-IC-T was the integrated testing of the five liquid fuel rocket engines to be used in the Apollo
S-IC-T
Rocket launch site on the Woomera Test Range in Australia
operational site at the RAAF Woomera Test Range, forming part of the Woomera Range Complex. Originally, LA5 functioned as a rocket launch site supporting a number
Woomera_Launch_Area_5
Indian spaceflight company
building, testing, and assembling rockets and their components. These facilities help the company develop launch vehicles, test rocket engines, prepare
Skyroot_Aerospace
One of the largest rocket engines to be designed
most powerful liquid-hydrogen-fueled liquid-fuel rocket engines to be designed and component-tested. It was originally developed during the 1950s by the
Aerojet_M-1
SpaceX private launch site
private launch site, is an industrial complex and rocket launch facility that serves as the main testing and production location for Starship launch vehicles
SpaceX_Starbase
Reusable first-stage rocket developed by SpaceX
Before 2014, only two full-flow staged-combustion rocket engine designs had advanced enough to undergo testing: the Soviet RD-270 project in the 1960s and the
SpaceX_Super_Heavy
Jet engine where combustion takes place in supersonic airflow
scramjet flight at Mach 10 using rocket engines to boost the test vehicle to hypersonic speeds. A series of scramjet ground tests was completed at NASA Langley
Scramjet
Development facility of JAXA
rocket engine test facility High pressure liquid oxygen turbo pump test facility Rocket engine high altitude performance test facility Ram jet engine
Kakuda_Space_Center
American rocket engine design and production company
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los
Rocketdyne
First South Korean orbital launch vehicle developed domestically
and testing. With its successful launch, South Korea became the seventh country in the world to have a medium-sized liquid-propellant rocket engine over
Nuri_(rocket)
Canadian space launch facility
Taiga rocket for the facility's maiden flight from SLC-02, and has future plans to launch its 26-metre orbital rocket Tundra at the same facility from
Atlantic_Spaceport_Complex
German New Space start-up
Helix rocket engine began in July 2022, with an integrated stage+engine system test of 280 seconds duration in March 2023. By May 2024, a hot fire test with
Rocket_Factory_Augsburg
Aerospace manufacturer in the United Kingdom
production facility in Cumbernauld, the largest of its kind in the UK. In May 2022, Skyrora completed a 70 kN hot-fire test for its 3D printed rocket engine, which
Skyrora
Electrothermal thruster in development
Unit for the VASIMR Engine Successfully Completes Full Power Vacuum and Magnetic Field Tests at Ad Astra Rocket Company's Texas Facility" (PDF) (Press release)
Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket
turbopump unit for a rocket engine with a thrust of 3000 N was developed. A total of 100 bench tests of liquid-propellant rockets were conducted using
Soviet_rocketry
Liquid hydrogen/oxygen rocket engine
the engine completed acceptance testing in early 2015. The BE-3PM variant is used on the New Shepard suborbital rocket, which made its first test flight
BE-3
American aerospace company
demonstrate rocket engine". Biesecker, Cal (August 2, 2023). "iRocket To Use Air Force Facility To Test High Thrust Technology For Reusable Rockets". Defense
IRocket
Family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX for use on its Crewed Dragon spacecraft
propellant rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. It is part of the SpaceX Draco family of rocket engines. A redundant array of eight SuperDraco engines provides
SuperDraco
Rocket engine
J-2, commonly known as Rocketdyne J-2, was a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on NASA's Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles. Built in the
Rocketdyne_J-2
Major component of a liquid rocket engine
A liquid rocket engine powerhead (or powerpack) is the collective term for the section of a rocket engine consisting of turbopumps, preburners / gas generators
Powerhead_(rocket_engine)
American businessman (1895–1962)
rocket engines based on those developed by the Germans for the V-2. The two decided in 1946 to invest $1 million[citation needed] in a rocket engine test
James_H._Kindelberger
Orbital launch vehicle by Space Pioneer
Tianhuo-12 (TH-12) engine, designed for the Tianlong-3 rocket, successfully completed a full-duration hot fire test. The test utilized an engine in the flight
Tianlong-3
UK-based military research site at RAF Westcott
Royal Ordnance. In 2017, Reaction Engines Ltd began construction of a test facility to develop their SABRE rocket engine, intended for the Skylon reusable
Rocket Propulsion Establishment
Rocket_Propulsion_Establishment
Rocket engine that uses both liquid / gaseous and solid fuel
states of matter), hybrid rockets tend to fail more benignly than liquids or solids. Like liquid rocket engines, hybrid rocket motors can be shut down easily
Hybrid-propellant_rocket
Development history of the SpaceX Starship vehicle
Congress, a Raptor engine fired for the first time. At the event, Musk announced SpaceX was developing a new rocket using Raptor engines called the Interplanetary
SpaceX Starship design history
SpaceX_Starship_design_history
Soviet rocket engine
were rocket engines developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau for the Soviet space program's ill-fated N1 Moon rocket. The
NK-33
American spaceflight and AI company
SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas, is used for rocket engine development and testing. Every SpaceX rocket engine and thruster
SpaceX
Effort by SpaceX to make rockets that can fly multiple times
20 ha) concrete launch facility at its Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas to support the Grasshopper flight test program. Grasshopper
SpaceX reusable launch system development program
SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_development_program
Orbital launch vehicle by LandSpace
2019, LandSpace performed test firings of its liquid-methane and liquid-oxygen fuelled TQ-12 rocket engine at its test facility at Huzhou, Zhejiang province
Zhuque-2
Upcoming crewed mission of the Artemis program
System (SLS) rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will test rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and test versions of commercial
Artemis_III
American rocketry company
shot to test its ignition sensitivity.[citation needed] In June 1999, Rotary Rocket announced that it would use a derivative of the Fastrac engine under
Rotary_Rocket
United States historic place
The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet
Space Flight Operations Facility
Space_Flight_Operations_Facility
Rockets facility of JAXA
combustion test building and an upper motor high altitude performance test facility completed by 1992. The static firing test for the M-V rocket engines took
Noshiro_Rocket_Testing_Center
Topics referred to by the same term
Test Forum - provides an interoperability test framework for the Web Service community White Sands Test Facility - a NASA rocket engine test facility
WSTF
Rocket under development by Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman
reported that the development was progressing smoothly, with the rockets' Miranda engines beginning full production in June. In the summer of 2024, Firefly
Eclipse_(rocket)
Rural property used to produce motion pictures and television
Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) experimental Nuclear Reactor and Rocket Engine Test Facility. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the State of California
Movie_ranch
American aerospace company
November 2014, and purchased 215 acres (87 ha) of land for an engine test and manufacturing facility in Briggs, Texas, 50 miles (80 km) north of Austin. In 2014
Firefly_Aerospace
Aircraft and rocket engine manufacturer based in France
It designs, manufactures and maintains engines for commercial and military aircraft as well as rocket engines for launch vehicles and satellites. Some
Safran_Aircraft_Engines
NASA super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used in the Artemis Program
ex-Shuttle RS-25 engines. Attached to the core are two Northrop Grumman five-segment Solid Rocket Boosters, built for the Ares vehicles, tested on Ares I-X
Space_Launch_System
Branch of the Korean People's Army
manufacturing facility. Yeongjeo-dong(영저동) the site is near the Chinese border in Ryanggang Province. Magun'po(마군포) is a solid rocket motor test facility. Chamjin-ni(잠진리)
Korean People's Army Strategic Force
Korean_People's_Army_Strategic_Force
Medium-lift expendable rocket by Northrop Grumman
Firefly Aerospace based on the company's MLV rocket using composite structures and seven Miranda engines to increase payload capacity. The second stage
Antares_(rocket)
Rocket engine developed by ISRO for upper stage of its LVM3 rocket
The CE-20 is a cryogenic rocket engine developed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), a subsidiary of ISRO. It has been developed to power
CE-20
Liquid-fueled rocket engine
The J-2X is a liquid-fueled cryogenic rocket engine that was planned for use on the Ares rockets of NASA's Constellation program, and later the Space Launch
J-2X
Russian and Soviet rocket family
version of the rocket called Molniya-M. The flight ended six minutes after the launch because of a failure of the third stage engine or an unfulfilled
Soyuz_(rocket_family)
Solid propellant rocket used by the Space Shuttle
double the most powerful single-combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket engine ever flown, the Rocketdyne F-1. With a combined mass of about 1,180
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster
Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster
Public university in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
County on the Mississippi-Louisiana border; it is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. Stennis also is home to the university's Department of Marine
University of Southern Mississippi
University_of_Southern_Mississippi
NASA rocket manufacturing complex in Michoud, New Orleans
decade, the facility was used for the construction of the S-IC first stage of the Saturn V rockets and the S-IB first stage of the Saturn IB rockets built by
Michoud_Assembly_Facility
Rocket developed by Blue Origin
two further flights were performed by Goddard. Blue Engine 1, or BE-1, was the first rocket engine developed by Blue Origin and was used in the company's
New_Shepard
German private space launch enterprise
hybrid rocket from western SA". 4 May 2024. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. "HyImpulse runs successful engine tests for hybrid rocket in Shetland"
HyImpulse
Russian rocket engine
Двигатель-180 (РД-180), romanized: Raketnyy Dvigatel-180, lit. 'Rocket Engine-180') is a rocket engine that was designed and built in Russia. It features a dual
RD-180
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Boy/Male
English American
Rock.
Boy/Male
French
Rock.
Female
Welsh
Welsh pet form of Greek Hagne (English Agnes), NEST means "chaste; holy."
Boy/Male
French, German, Hebrew, Italian
Rest; Rock
Surname or Lastname
Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a refiner, from Yiddish test ‘crucible’, ‘melting pot’.English : nickname for someone with a large or otherwise remarkable head, from Old French teste ‘head’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Rock.German (Röcke) : variant of Rock 4.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, German, Italian, Jamaican
Rock; Form of Rockne; From the Rock Fortress; Stone Camp; Rest
Boy/Male
Australian, British, Chinese, English
West Town; Surname; From the Western Stream
Male
Turkish
Turkish name ENGIN means "vast."
Girl/Female
Greek
Rock.
Girl/Female
Greek
Wellborn. Feminine of Eugene.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs, from an agent derivative of Middle English rok ‘distaff’ (see Rock).German : from a Germanic personal name based on hrÅd ‘renown’.habitational name from a farm named Rokken in Pustertal, south Tyrol (Italy).German (Röcker) : from a topographic name or a place name Röcke (formerly Roke) near Bückeburg, Lower Saxony.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, German, Italian
Dweller by the Rock; From the Rock Fortress; Stone Camp; Rest
Boy/Male
English American
West town. Surname.
Boy/Male
British, English, Jamaican
From the Rock Meadow; Rocky Field
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rocker.
Boy/Male
Greek American
Well-born. Famous bearer: Prince Eugene of Savoy; American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Female
English
Short form of English Tessa, TESS means "harvester."Â
Boy/Male
French
Rock.
Surname or Lastname
German (also Rücker)
German (also Rücker) : nickname from Middle High German rucken ‘to move or draw’.North German : nickname from Middle Low German rucker ‘thief’, ‘greedy or acquisitive person’.German : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Rudiger.English : variant of Rocker.
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Boy/Male
British, Hindu, Indian
Puzzle
Boy/Male
Australian, Biblical, Christian
Who Despairs or Burns; Given by the Lord
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Star
Girl/Female
African, Australian, Danish, French, Polish
God is My Oath
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Pure
Girl/Female
Hindu
Someone who is concerned about the welfare (Hita) of others, Indian
Girl/Female
Indian
Name of a Raga
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Blend of Darell and Clarence
Girl/Female
Latin
Young.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Greek, Jamaican
Man from Sebasta
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v. t.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
v. t.
To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
v. t.
To assault with an engine.
a.
Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.
n.
Rocket larkspur. See below.
n.
Alt. of Testa
n.
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
n.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
n.
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
v. t.
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
v. t.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
v. i.
To make a confused noise or racket.
imp. & p. p.
of Rocket
v. t.
To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.