Successful DM-2 Testing, Brigham City, Utah
October 11, 2010
Ignition of Development Motor-2: DM-2 is the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. It is the most heavily instrumented solid rocket motor in NASA history with a total of 53 test objectives measured through more than 760 instruments. The Aug. 31 static test was conducted by ATK Aerospace Systems in Promontory, Utah. DM-2 is managed by the Ares Projects Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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Space technology, Space, Rocketry, Technology Internet, Ares I-X, Thiokol, Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area, Lockheed Martin, Human spaceflight, Marshall Space Flight Center, Rocket
