A number of quality inspections are also performed throughout the booster’s manufacture, including X-ray, ensuring it will perform exactly as predicted. Northrop Grumman conducts full-scale static tests of its motors to qualify upgrades and to ensure flawless operation. Of the booster’s total weight of 1.6 million pounds, propellant accounts for 1.5 million pounds. The entire booster (including nose cap, frustum, and forward and aft skirts) are approximately 177 feet long. These are the largest human-rated solid rocket boosters ever built for flight.Įach motor consists of five rocket motor segments, thrust vector control and an aft exit cone assembly it is 153 feet long and 12 feet in diameter. Northrop Grumman manufactures the five-segment solid rocket boosters for the NASA Space Launch System (SLS). This vehicle is based on the company’s highly successfu l Cygnus spacecraft. Finally, Northrop Grumman is part of the Human Landing System National Team led by Blue Origin with partners Lockheed Martin and Draper.We are providing the Transfer Element that will lower the lunar lander from NASA’s Gateway to low lunar orbit before disconnecting for the lander’s actual descent. We’re also building the Habitat and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for NASA’s lunar gateway. Additional information about these motors can be seen below, with detailed information available in the SLS Motors section of Northrop Grumman’s Propulsion Products Catalog. Northrop Grumman supports NASA’s Artemis program by providing the solid rocket boosters for the NASA Space Launch System and the abort motor and attitude control motor for the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System. NASA will then use this knowledge to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars.
NASA’s Artemis program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade.
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