Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] said June 7 that a two-stage configuration of its flight-proven Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) was successfully flight-tested in the Booster Verification Test-1 (BVT-1) mission that originated from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Calif. Under a contract from Boeing [BA] for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, Orbital developed a two-stage ground-based interceptor (GBI) booster that will provide the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) more flexibility in how it addresses emerging threats to the United States, its deployed…
Orbital’s Two-Stage OBV Interceptor Rocket Successfully Launched for Missile Defense Flight Test
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