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🇺🇸 An April 16 explosion destroyed a building at Northrop Grumman’s Innovation Systems plant in Promontory, Utah, where the company makes solid rocket motors for US government and commercial customers.

There was no immediate report of casualties, which occurred at 7:35 am local time. Local officials said they are investigating the accident.

Northrop officials say the accident will not delay any of its programs. The Air Force referred inquiries to Northrop.

A Northrop spokesman would not characterize the function of the building, and whether it was involved in production of solid rocket motors, or SRMs. Industry sources later told Air & Space Forces Magazine the building was used in part to store materials used to make solid rocket motors.

Northrop’s Innovation Systems—formerly Orbital ATK—accounts for nearly 90 percent of the SRM capacity in the U.S., a capability that supports Air Force, NASA, and commercial space launch activities.

A local television station flew a helicopter over the building, showing no active fire but major wreckage.

Crucially for the Air Force, Northrop plans to use large solid rocket motors developed in-house for the new LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile. However, Northrop officials said the destroyed building is not involved in the Sentinel program.

The facility is located north of the Great Salt Lake and northwest of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex, which has responsibility for Minuteman III rocket motor sustainment, among other systems.

What is now Northrop Grumman’s Innovation Systems was once the Thiokol company, which was acquired by Alliant Tech Systems in 2001. Alliant Tech Systems became ATK, and merged with Orbital Sciences Corp. in 2015. Three years later, Northrop acquired Orbital/ATK.

The nation’s large solid rocket motor capacity is so concentrated with Northrop that it had to agree to be a merchant provider of SRMs to Boeing in the competition to build the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, now known as the Sentinel system.

Northrop was selected for the contract in 2020, after Boeing announced it would not bid, claiming it could not compete with Northrop’s in-house SRM advantage.

The next-largest producer of SRMs in the U.S. is Aerojet Rocketdyne, since 2023 a part of L3Harris.

Anijay1212:

This op and bad news from USA.
I hope the Russian government has placed you on a stipend because it would be very unfortunate if you are wasting your time for nothing.

tutudesz:
WriterNig
I guess your daily prayer point is for bad news in America While Russia government censor all the bad news coming out of country

LeeSmart:
Op is a 46yrs old man who probably has nothing going on for him.

lordm:
He is a paid Russian propagandist. Always spreading bad news about America. Don't mind the man

WriterNig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mymwTOMLVG4



credit: Air & Space Force

tutudesz:
WriterNig
I guess your daily prayer point is for bad news in America While Russia government censor all the bad news coming out of country

Blazebond:
Hahahahah,ODE,what do you have going for yourself at your age? You are probably a 23 years old fool who is likely to commit suicide in the next few years after having a failed relationship and career. Small pikin when don already become impotent.

WriterNig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mymwTOMLVG4



credit: Air & Space Force

tutudesz:
WriterNig
I guess your daily prayer point is for bad news in America While Russia government censor all the bad news coming out of country