ATK Rocket Motors Help Launch Japan's Superbird-6 Satellite Aboard Atlas IIAS Vehicle
Posted on: Friday, 16 April 2004, 06:00 CDT
MINNEAPOLIS, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems) rocket motors helped successfully launch a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. yesterday. The Atlas IIAS used four ATK CASTOR(R) IVA strap-on solid rocket motors produced by ATK and carried a satellite into orbit for Space Communications Corporation of Japan.
The Superbird-6 satellite will spend the next 13 years orbiting the Earth to provide business telecommunications services to Japan.
Eighty-eight CASTOR IVA motors have flown on Atlas IIAS rockets since 1993 with 100 percent launch success rate.
ATK is the world's leading supplier of solid rocket motors. The company's product portfolio comprises a wide range of first-stage, second-stage, and strap-on boosters, including CASTOR IV, CASTOR 120(R), GEM, and Orion motors, the Titan IVB solid rocket motor upgrade (SRMU), and the Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motors.
ATK is $2.3 billion advanced weapons and space systems company employing 13,200 people in 21 states. News and information can be found on the Internet at http://www.atk.com/ .
Media Contact: Investor Contact:
Bryce Hallowell Steve Wold
Phone: 952-351-3087 Phone: 952-351-3056
E-mail: bryce.hallowell@atk.com E-mail: steve_wold@atk.com
Alliant Techsystems
CONTACT: Media, Bryce Hallowell, +1-952-351-3087,bryce.hallowell@atk.com , or Investors, Steve Wold, +1-952-351-3056,steve_wold@atk.com , both of Alliant Techsystems
Web site: http://www.atk.com/
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