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From Nashville, to Memphis, to Knoxville and Chattanooga, Jacobs has locations around Tennessee. Across Tennessee—and on six continents—Jacobs is finding solutions to both large and small challenges to help reimagine a better and more sustainable future.
Every day we tackle complex engineering challenges across water, transportation, infrastructure, the environment, and even safety in deep space. Whether it’s in Tennessee, Texas or on missions to Mars, Jacobs is committed to being a good neighbor and partner. Working with men and women in communities around the world, we are working for a better today—and we are helping us all to realize the dreams of what is to come.
Improving the Safety of Deep Space Exploration
Jacobs is is working to make human missions to the Moon and Mars safer. And our critical safety tests for NASA are helping to pave the way. Jacobs recently completed a successful crucial full-stress flight test of the Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS), verifying the abort system can steer the spacecraft and astronauts aboard to safety if an emergency arises during ascent to orbit.
Working with NASA, the Jacobs team played a crucial support role across five NASA centers in every project phase of AA-2, including design, development, fabrication, integration of crucial avionics and data collection systems, final launch processing and integration, and launch operations. Jacobs will also play a major role in full analysis of launch and test data captured from sensors and instruments for the mission.
With no astronauts on board, the test flight launched atop a booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying a fully functional LAS and a 22,000-pound Orion test vehicle to an altitude of 31,000 feet at Mach 1.3 (over 1,000 Mph). At that point, the abort system engines quickly propelled the crew module away from the rocket within milliseconds, and data recorders jettisoned from the crew module before Orion reached the Atlantic Ocean.
The successful completion of AA-2 will help pave the way for NASA's Artemis 1 mission the first uncrewed flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion crew capsule. Jacobs is proud to be a part of a safer exploration of deep space.
Learn more about Jacobs’ work on the Artemis Moon Program
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NewsArtemis I Rolls to Launch Pad for the First Time
The Jacobs team supported NASA rolling out the Artemis I rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in preparation of final prelaunch tests of the Space Launch System (SLS). Artemis I, a flight test of the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built, will be the first mission in NASA's new deep space human exploration program, which aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon and establish sustainable exploration in preparation for missions to Mars.
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NewsJacobs and NASA Begin Processing of Space Launch System Core Stage, Received Final Piece of Artemis I Flight Hardware
Jacobs and NASA have begun processing the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage after receiving it at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on April 28, marking delivery of the final piece of Artemis I flight hardware to the team in Florida, a critical step in preparation for launch. The SLS rocket will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test flight around the moon and back to Earth later this year, paving the way for future Artemis missions with astronauts.
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NewsJacobs Supports NASA in Hitting Major Milestone for Artemis I
Jacobs and NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program recently achieved a major milestone at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) as the motor segments of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) arrived by rail at KSC in Florida on June 15, 2020. The twin SRBs are part of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), which will be used to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.