NASA conducted a key stability test firing of the J-2X rocket engine on December 1, marking another step forward in development of the upper-stage engine designed as part of the Space Launch System for the Orion spacecraft. This is the latest in a series of J2-X tests including a November 9 rocket test fire.
















































































































![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)



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