NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and prime test and operations contractor Jacobs are busy practicing how to put Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) together in High Bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Working with inert motor segments and booster hardware, the EGS and Jacobs team are running through all the procedures they will use to process the SRB flight hardware for the first Space Launch System (SLS) launch, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
Orbital ATK recently provided a peek at current production of Space Launch System (SLS) booster…
With booster casting operations for SLS’s EM-1 mission well underway at Orbital ATK’s manufacturing facility…
Following the highly successful test firing of the Qualification Motor 2 (QM-2) at their proving…
With a series of successful test firings completed by Orbital ATK, engineers are gaining confidence…
Orbital ATK and NASA have conducted the last planned full-scale Space Launch System (SLS) solid…
NASA is ramping up production of hardware and flight elements for the Space Launch System…
With approximately three years to go before the inaugural flight of the Space Launch System rocket, NASA…
Orbital ATK is making steady progress on the production of the twin Solid Rocket Boosters…
As work progresses around the country toward the debut of NASA’s SLS rocket in 2018, Orbital…
Orbital ATK engineers have concluded a thorough examination of the Qualification Motor -1 (QM-1) following…
The Space Launch System (SLS) management have set the milestones and dates for the upcoming…
Orbital ATK’s Qualification Motor -1 (QM-1) test has conducted a key firing on Wednesday, on…
The giant boosters that will help shove NASA’s new monster rocket uphill are hitting milestones…
ATK’s test facility in Promontory, Utah is now officially looking forward to the next full-scale…
A year after discovering small voids between the solid propellant and the outer casing of the aft…
ESA’s Future Launchers Preparatory Program and France’s CNES space agency have test fired the Pressure Oscillation…
The Scale Model Acoustic Test (SMAT) – a mini-me version of the SLS – has…
ATK announced they successfully completed the filament winding of a pathfinder Advanced Booster composite case. The…
Experts from ATK and NASA are investigating the cause of voids in the aft segment…