Hot run

A Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) rocket motor is installed in J-6 Large Rocket Motor Test Facility before test firing. Paint stripes on the top of the MLRS rocket motor, is temperature-indicating paint that monitors temperature range between 200 to 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

Satellite killer

A Navy Standard Missile model undergoes aerodynamic testing in AEDC's von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility Wind Tunnel A in 1994. (AEDC file photo)

Over the Pacific

The USS Lake Erie launches a Navy Standard Missile-3 at a nonfunctioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph over the Pacific Ocean Feb. 20. (Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Navy)

Space Chamber

Pictured is AEDC’s 10V Space Chamber Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) facility. (Photo by David Housch)

verification

Augie Huber, a systems engineer with the Kinetic Kill Vehicle Hardware-in-the-loop Simulator team from Eglin, AFB, works inside the center’s 10V Space Chamber on the Infrared Array Optical Assembly. He is verifying the connections to the resistive emitter arrays installed in that subsystem. In front of Huber is the Steering Mirror System with two of the Collimating Optical System mirrors behind him. (Photo by David Housch)

NASA Orion testing heating up at AEDC

Troy Davis, Aerospace Testing Alliance outside machinist, checks the alignment of the Orion heat shield material sample prior to testing in H2. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)