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ATK. and. United. Launch. Alliance. Successfully.Test. GEM-60.Motor ATK and United Launch Alliance (ULA) conducted a successful cold-temperature • 18 • March/Apr 2012 22 • Sept/Oct 2012
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No minimums ground test last month of a Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM-60) solid rocket motor used to boost ULA’s Delta IV launch vehicles.
launch vehicle family in November 2002, and the first four-motor configuration flew in 2009.
The 60-inch diameter and 53-feet long motor, which was chilled to a core temperature of 30 degrees F, performed as designed, producing approximately 270,000 pounds of thrust and burned for 90 seconds. The test was the second in a series to qualify new fixed and vectorable nozzles manufactured by ATK for flight readiness.
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During the GEM-60 static motor firing, the rocket motor performed at cold temperatures within specifications. The successful test qualifies the new fixed nozzle for flight motors and validates the performance of new nozzle insulation at the lowest range of operational temperatures. The GEM-60 motor is a strap-on booster that was developed for ULA by ATK in 2000 to increase the payload-to-orbit capability of the Delta IV Medium+ launch vehicle.The first two-motor configuration boosted the inaugural flight of the Delta IV
U.S. manufacturing and trade inventories rose by 0.8 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted $1.59 trillion, the U.S. Census Bureau said last month. The report that adds to last month’s w h o l e s a l e t r a d e r e p o r t s h owe d manufacturing and trade sales for the month up 0.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis to $1.24 trillion. From July 2011, inventories rose by 5.4 percent while sales rose 2.8 percent from a year earlier. The inventory-to-sales ratio -- reflecting how many months it would take a company to deplete its inventory at the current sales pace -- came in at 1.28. A year earlier, the ratio was 1.25.