Orbital ATK OBV Rocket Successfully Completes Missile Defense Test
January 29 2016 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Company’s Long-Range Silo-Launched Booster
Completes 14th Consecutive Flight
Orbital ATK Also Supplies Intermediate Range
Target for CTV-02+ Mission
Orbital ATK (NYSE:OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, successfully launched and tested its Orbital Boost
Vehicle (OBV) rocket for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) as
part of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Controlled Test
Vehicle-02 Plus (CTV)-02+ mission. The company also supplied its
Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile target rocket for this
critical national security system test.
The OBV was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California,
on January 28, 2016. Orbital ATK provides the OBV to MDA as part of
an industry team led by The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) and Northrop
Grumman (NYSE:NG).
“This test marks the fourteenth successful flight of our OBV
rocket, supporting MDA’s ongoing testing of its GMD system,” said
Rich Straka, Vice President and General Manager of Orbital ATK’s
Launch Vehicles Division. “We are proud to support this vital
program that defends the United States against long-range missile
attacks.”
A Ground-based Interceptor (GBI) intercept was not an objective
for this particular flight test. The test began when the GMD fire
control system processed a weapons task plan to launch a GBI from a
silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base against an air-launched
Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile target, also supplied by
Orbital ATK.
Following a preliminary post-flight analysis of the data
collected from the mission, MDA and the GMD team confirmed all
primary OBV objectives for flight test were achieved. These
included pre-launch built-in test functionality, silo launch and
fly out of the OBV, accurate booster delivery of the Exoatmospheric
Kill Vehicle (EKV) and acquisition of telemetry data for further
characterization of the OBV’s flight characteristics.
Orbital ATK’s missile defense interceptors and related target
vehicle are primarily produced at the company’s engineering and
manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona, with propulsion
manufactured in Magna, Utah and its vehicle assembly and
integration facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California and
Huntsville, Alabama.
Today’s mission was executed under the GMD Development and
Sustainment Contract, which continues through at least 2018.
Orbital ATK developed the OBV under a multi-year contract from
Boeing that began in 2002. Together the OBV and the EKV comprise
the GBI, which is assembled by Boeing.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 12,000 people in 18 states across the U.S. and in
several international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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