Wed, Sep 14, 2011
Will Collaborate On Liberty Launch System As Part Of CCDev
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NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) of Salt Lake City have agreed
to collaborate on the development of the company's Liberty Launch
System as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Development Round 2
activities. The unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) through NASA's
Commercial Crew Program will allow the agency and ATK to review and
discuss Liberty system requirements, safety and certification
plans, computational models of rocket stage performance, and
avionics architecture designs. The agreement outlines key
milestones including an Initial System Design review, during which
ATK will present to NASA officials the Liberty systems level
requirements, preliminary design, and certification process
development.
"This agreement will provide the opportunity to look at the
Liberty system to understand its design solution and risks, its
capabilities and how it could be used to fly our NASA crew," said
Ed Mango, NASA's Commercial Crew Program manager. The program is
based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA will provide feedback to ATK based on its human spaceflight
experience for advancing crew transportation system capabilities
and the agency's draft human certification requirements. "With this
SAA we believe NASA will benefit from gaining insight into the
various systems we are developing, and we can benefit from the
feedback," said Kent Rominger, vice president, strategy and
business development for ATK Aerospace. "In the end, we hope to
offer a commercial solution to NASA, the Department of Defense, and
other commercial human spaceflight programs."
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