Expand / China’s brand new carrier aircraft CERES-1, developed from the Beijing-based high-tech firm Galactic Energy, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on November 7, 2020. (charge: Chen Xiao/VCG through Getty Images)
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Relativity Space conducts full-duration engine evaluation . Relativity Space stated Monday that the organization has successfully finished a full-duration test-firing of its Aeon 1 rocket motor, operating it in full capacity for 187 minutes. The evaluation at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi happened together with each the engine key elements –such as turbopumps, injector, and combustion room –functioning within an flight-like configuration. Astonishingly, the business met this landmark two weeks before schedule.
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