ATK Awarded Contracts for $97 Million to Supply Rocket Motors.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  March, 2004  

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February 18, 2004 - Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Edina, Minn., received contracts worth more than $97 million to produce first, second, and third stage Orion motors for Orbital Sciences Corporation. The ATK Thiokol Propulsion Bacchus Plant in Magna, Utah, will perform the work under two-year contracts.

The contracts call for the delivery of 23 Orion flight sets in 2004 and 2005, along with additional tooling to support the higher production rates planned during the two-year period. Three partial flight sets are designated for use on Minotaur space launch vehicles that Orbital ...

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