ATK and KEI Missile Defense Team Successfully Test Fire First-Stage Rocket Motor
Test Brings KEI Development Closer to Booster Flight in 2008 PROMONTORY, Utah, June 14 / / -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE:ATK) completed a successful test firing earlier today of a first-stage rocket motor for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI), bringing the program closer to a high-tech defense system that will protect our homeland, deployed troops and allied...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 25 // -- Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. (NYSE:GY) company, completed a successful demonstration of its MK 104 second-stage rocket motor in a Missile Defense Agency/Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) test over the Pacific Ocean. Aerojet is building MK 104 solid rocket motors for the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) under a contract with Raytheon Company. The Aegis BMD system, of...
Read More »ATK Supports Successful Launch of Pegasus Rocket Carrying NASA's AIM Satellite
MINNEAPOLIS, April 25 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE:ATK) solid propulsion and composite technologies supported the successful launch yesterday of an Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) air-launched Pegasus XLÃ-® rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Pegasus XL carried NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite into space. ATK's Orion solid propulsion motors...
Read More »ATK Rocket Motors Power Successful Launch of Pegasus-® XL
Microsatellites to Explore Earth's Magnetic Field MINNEAPOLIS, March 22 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE:ATK) solid propulsion and composite technologies supported the successful launch today of an air-launched PegasusÃ-® XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The rocket carried three microsatellites comprising NASA's Space Technology No. 5 (ST-5) mission into orbit. The ST-5 Project is...
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Read More »TPA Motion Introduces Industry's First Compact Robotic Positioner for Medical Devices
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