ULA Forms Team To Investigate RD-180 Anomaly

​United Launch Alliance (ULA) has formed a team to investigate the premature shutdown of the RD-180 engine powering the first stage of the Atlas V rocket that deployed Orbital ATK’s OA-6 Cygnus space station resupply craft March 22. The Russian-made engine shut down 6 sec. early, but the rocket’s...

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