ATK Will Get $62.5 Million for Orion Abort Motors

Credit: ATK
Orbital Sciences Corp. will pay Alliant Techsystems $62.5 million to develop and produce the largest of three solid-fuel rocket motors that will make up the launch abort system (LAS) for NASA’s planned Orion crew exploration vehicle. The company already has tested this subscale version of the LAS...

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