Orion Abort Test Booster
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Retired
The Orion Abort Test Booster is a small solid rocket launcher developed by Northropp Grumman. It uses a single stage Peacekeeper missile first stage motor [SR118] inside an Aero-Shell to replicate the Orion Service Module 5.5 meter diameter.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 2,200 kN
- Height
- —
- Diameter
- 5.5 m
- Launch mass
- —
- Stages
- 1
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- —
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
100%
1 of 1
Current success streak
1
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Orion Test Booster | Ascent Abort-2 — Success