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Overview
On June 26, 2025, Northrop Grumman conducted the first full-scale static fire test of NASA’s next-generation solid rocket booster for the Space Launch System (SLS) — the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) motor — at its Promontory, Utah facility. Known as DM-1 (Demonstration Motor-1), this was the first of…
31 . Oct . 2017

You’re very familiar with the fact that Amorim has been working with NASA as a technology partner since the beginning of space exploration.…
I’m extremely proud to have had the opportunity to be part of our country’s space program including the amazing opportunity to fly on the Space Shuttle on four occasions. And to know that Amorim cork played such a critical role in the thermal protection system of the Solid Rocket Boosters makes me so thankful to Amorim…