Orion Launch Abort Motor in Ground Test
Credit: NASA
NASA conducted a roughly 4-sec.ground firing of the Launch Abort System (LAS) motor for the Orion spacecraft at Alliant Techsystems’ (ATK) facility in Promontory, Utah, on Nov. 20. The event was the first test of its kind since the Apollo era ,and cleared the way for the first integrated pad abort...
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