NRL Stennis Space Center
NRL-SSC,
a tenant activity at
NASA's Stennis Space Center (SSC)
is located in the southwest corner of
Mississippi about 50 miles northeast of New Orleans,
Louisiana, and 30 miles from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. SSC encompasses over 200 square miles of land area including a perimeter buffer zone to insulate surrounding
civilian communities from the noise of rocket engine
testing by NASA.
Other Navy tenants include the Commander, Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command, and the Naval Oceanographic Office, who are major operational users of the oceanographic and atmospheric research and development performed by NRL.
This unique concentration of operational and research oceanographers makes SSC the center of naval oceanography and the largest such grouping in the world.