“NGL is one of Orbital ATK’s top growth initiatives. This milestone clearly shows the progress being made by the hundreds of engineers and technicians in Utah and Arizona who are developing the NGL system.” Source: Scott Lehr, President of Orbital ATK’s Flight Systems Group, commenting on Orbital ATK's successfully completion of an important milestone in developing advanced solid rocket propulsion and other technologies to be used in a new generation of intermediate- and large-class space launch vehicles. The company is in early production of development hardware for its Next Generation Launch (NGL) system, and on October 27 successfully completed the structural acceptance test on the first motor high-strength composite case for this program.
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