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KEI Cold Launch Testing Begins, Northrop Grumman Announces

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Monday, January 12th, 2009

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The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) began cold-launch system testing essential for mobile, global and flexible missile defense, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. A key part of this system -- the solid propellant gas generator -- was successfully tested Dec. 18 at the Alliant Techsystems [ATK] facility in Elkton, Md. ATK supplies the gas generator, and Raytheon Co. [RTN] participated as the team's lead for interceptor development. "The gas generator provides the energy needed for steam- or gas-launched missiles that will…

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