7.5K views · 297 reactions | A Northrop Grumman Pegasus rocket dropped from the belly of a carrier jet over the Pacific Ocean early Sunday and streaked into orbit with a small U.S. military space surveillance satellite named Odyssey, completing a successful rapid launch exercise in partnership with a secretive new Space Force special projects unit. Full story: https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/06/13/pegasus-rocket-successful-in-responsive-launch-demonstration/ | Spaceflight Now | Facebook

🚀 3-2-1 🚀 Northrop Grumman just fired up the most powerful segmented solid rocket booster ever built and they made it happen in less than a year. In Promontory, Utah, the company conducted the first full-scale test of NASA’s BOLE (Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension) motor — a 156-foot-long beast delivering over 4 million pounds of thrust in just over two minutes. Designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration, the BOLE booster brings a 10% performance boost over its predecessor