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Rocket Lab USA Opens 1M-SF Archimedes Text Complex at Stennis Space Center in MS
Rocket Lab USA, Inc., has kicked off operations for testing the Archimedes engine with a ribbon cutting ceremony at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in MS. The Archimedes Test Complex will be home to engine testing for the 165,000 lbf engines to be used on Rocket Lab’s reusable Neutron rocket.
The Archimedes Test Complex is located across a 1 million-square-foot area at the Stennis Space Center’s A Test Complex and includes use and development of existing infrastructure of the A-3 Test Stand to develop and test Neutron’s Archimedes engines. With the opening of the Archimedes Test Complex, Rocket Lab will be able to create dozens of new jobs and make significant capital investments in the state of MS.
Neutron is Rocket Lab’s reusable rocket in development, designed as a cost-effective, reliable, and responsive launch service to help build mega-constellations, deliver large spacecraft to low-Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and interplanetary destination. Neutron is also being designed to be human spaceflight capable in future.
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