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Orion Abort Test Booster

Rocket file · LV-195

Orion Abort Test Booster

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · RETIRED

Photograph: NASA · NASA Image and Media Guidelines · licence

Orion Abort Test Booster is an expendable launch vehicle built by National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It first flew on 2 July 2019. It has flown 1 times with 1 successes, a success rate of 100.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
HeightNOT ON FILE
Diameter5.5 m
Payload to LEONOT ON FILE
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight2 July 2019
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights1
Successful1
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0

About Orion Abort Test Booster

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.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

Orion Abort Test Booster is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Loaded SR 118 Move to Surge 1 for AA-2
Loaded SR 118 Move to Surge 1 for AA-2NASA / KSC · public domainNASA ↗
Loaded SR 118 Move to Surge 1 for AA-2
Loaded SR 118 Move to Surge 1 for AA-2NASA / KSC · public domainNASA ↗
Loaded SR 118 Move to Surge 1 for AA-2
Loaded SR 118 Move to Surge 1 for AA-2NASA / KSC · public domainNASA ↗

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Common questions

How many times has Orion Abort Test Booster flown?
1 times, with 1 successes and 0 failures.
What is Orion Abort Test Booster's success rate?
100.0%. That's 1 successful flights out of 1 attempts.
How much can Orion Abort Test Booster lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 doesn't list a payload figure for Orion Abort Test Booster.
Is Orion Abort Test Booster reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists Orion Abort Test Booster as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.