Test Of 7+ Year-Old SRB Engine Also Helps Ares Program
NASA's Space Shuttle Program on Thursday successfully conducted
a test firing of a space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor in
Utah. The flight support motor, or FSM-15, burned for approximately
123 seconds, the same time each reusable solid rocket motor burns
during an actual space shuttle launch.
This week, Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and Mark Dankberg,
Chairman and CEO of ViaSat Inc., announced they have signed the
launch Service & Solutions contract for the ViaSat-1 broadband
communications satellite.
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