Conversion Of Inert System Underway At ATK Facility In
Utah
The conversion of the main abort motor for NASA's first
Exploration Flight Test of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle,
slated for 2014 from Kennedy Space Center, is underway in Salt Lake
City, UT. The inert system was recently returned to ATK's facility
in Salt Lake City from Lockheed Martin's Waterton facility in
Denver, where the system successfully completed a series of
rigorous acoustic and modal tests.
Will Develop Rack System To Fly Experiments Aboard
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic, has selected NanoRacks to construct a rack
system to allow research payloads to fly to space aboard Virgin
Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2). With these new racks, SS2 will
allow researchers to conduct experiments during several minutes of
microgravity using a mounting system also employed on the
International Space Station (ISS).
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