Northrop Grumman tests Space Launch System booster for Artemis

Promontory UT (SPX) Sep 03, 2020

NASA and Northrop Grumman Corporation have conducted a full-scale static fire test of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster (FSB-1), in Promontory. During the test, the 154-foot-long, five-segment rocket motor fired for just over two minutes, producing 3.6 million pounds of thrust. Two SLS boosters will provide more than 75 percent of the initial th