Orbital ATK Successfully Tests First Motor Case for Next Generation Launch Vehicle
November 07 2017 - 11:56AM
Business Wire
NGL System Achieves Critical Milestone with
Completion of Structural Acceptance Test
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, announced it has successfully completed an important
milestone in developing advanced solid rocket propulsion and other
technologies to be used in a new generation of intermediate- and
large-class space launch vehicles. The company is in early
production of development hardware for its Next Generation Launch
(NGL) system, and on October 27 successfully completed the
structural acceptance test on the first motor high-strength
composite case for this program.
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Orbital ATK successfully completed the
structural acceptance test on the first motor high-strength
composite case for its Next Generation Launch system. (Photo:
Business Wire)
The applied structural loads during the test demonstrated over
110 percent of maximum expected motor operating pressure and 110
percent of operational/flight and pre-launch compressive/tensile
line loads. This full-scale motor case segment will be cast with
inert solid rocket propellant in early 2018 and shipped to the
launch site for check-out of ground operations.
“NGL is one of Orbital ATK’s top growth initiatives,” said Scott
Lehr, President of Orbital ATK’s Flight Systems Group. “This
milestone clearly shows the progress being made by the hundreds of
engineers and technicians in Utah and Arizona who are developing
the NGL system.”
Orbital ATK’s NGL rocket family will be capable of launching the
entire spectrum of national security payloads, as well as science
and commercial satellites that are too large to be launched by the
company’s current Pegasus®, Minotaur and AntaresTM space launch
vehicles. The NGL vehicles will share common propulsion, structures
and avionics systems with other company programs, including smaller
space launch vehicles as well as missile defense interceptors,
target vehicles and strategic missile systems.
“By sharing a skilled workforce, facilities and subsystems
across multiple programs, we’ve designed NGL to be affordable and
reliable,” said Lehr. “For example, NGL uses common avionics that
have flown on more than 100 missions with 100 percent success.”
The next phase of the program is expected to begin when the Air
Force awards the Launch Services Agreement in mid-2018, which would
entail full vehicle and launch site development, with work taking
place at company facilities in Promontory and Magna, Utah; Iuka,
Mississippi; Chandler, Arizona; Kennedy Space Center, Florida; and
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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 13,000 people across the U.S. and in several
international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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