Shuttle Motor Test Gathers Ares I Data

BOOSTER TEST: A Dec. 4 hot-fire test of a 7.5-year-old reusable solid rocket motor (RSRM) for NASA’s space shuttle program also produced acoustic data for the Ares I crew launch vehicle program, which is using a five-segment version of the four-segment RSRM as its first stage. ATK Launch Systems ran...

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