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Orbital ATK Pitching Excess ICBM Rocket Motors for Commercial Space Launch

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

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Orbital ATK Pitching Excess ICBM Rocket Motors for Commercial Space Launch

The Air Force test launches a Minuteman III ICBM. Photo: Air Force.

Orbital ATK [OA] wants to use some 750 stored detached ballistic missile solid rocket motors for commercial launches, but a 17-year-old law precludes the government assets from being used for such purposes.Currently, Hill AFB, Utah, and Navajo Army Depot in Arizona house 426 Minuteman 2 motors, 154 Minuteman 3 motors and 176 Peacekeeper motors, according to Randy Riddle, Chief of Rocket Systems Launch Program Engineering and Development at Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC). Orbital ATK has been…

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