
Responding to customer demands for faster paced innovation and more production capacity, Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday conducted a full-scale static hot fire test of a new solid rocket motor (SRM) designed and developed in less than a year, part of a concurrent effort to develop nine new SRMs in support of new and existing programs. The 26-second motor burn at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Promontory, Utah, was part of the company’s new Solid Motor Annual Rocket Technology (SMART) Demonstrator.…