During a practice run, crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) is being driven to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 1, 2019. CT-2 entered High Bay 2, and picked up the space shuttle-era mobile launch platform-3 (MLP-3). The VAB is getting its first commercial tenant. Northrop Grumman signed a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement with NASA for use of the facilities. The company will assemble and test its new OmegA rocket inside the massive facility’s High Bay 2. The company also will modify MLP-3 to serve as the launch vehicle’s assembly and launch platform. Northrop Grumman is developing the OmegA rocket, an intermediate/heavy-class launch vehicle, as part of a launch services agreement with the U.S.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117448892" class="extiw" title="d:Q117448892"><span title="NASA photographer">Kim Shiflett</span></a>
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Taken on 1 May 2019, 11:14:43
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