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Test firing of world's largest solid rocket is steeped in space shuttle history [i]When the world's largest solid rocket motor is ignited in Utah later this week, it will not leave the ground, but it will fire with components that have a long spaceflight history. The static fire on Wednesday (March 11) at Orbital ATK's facilities in Promontory, Utah, will mark the fifth test of an advanced, five-segment booster and the first of two such firings planned in support of NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The agency intends to use a pair of the 177-foot-long (54 meter) solid-fuel motors to power the SLS beginning with its first flight in 2018. ...the first SLS qualification motor (QM-1) being tested on Wednesday is comprised of hardware with a historic past.[/i]
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