The Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital ATK) OmegA rocket conducted a key test today when its Castor 600 first stage fired for two minutes today at the NGIS test facility in Promontory, Utah, at the same test stand used by numerous Space Shuttle and SLS solid rocket motors during their test firings, although there was a situation with the nozzle that NGIS is looking at more closely.
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