Orbital ATK Tests Five-Segment Solid-Fuel Booster

Credit: SLS: NASA
Solid-propulsion engineers are evaluating data from the static test of a five-segment solid-rocket booster designed to boost NASA’s planned Space Launch System heavy lifter off the pad when it begins moving human explorers beyond low Earth orbit. Strapped down sideways at the Orbital ATK static-test...

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