Alliant To Work On Orion Emergency Propulsion System
Alliant Techsystems Inc. has been named to a team with a $70 million contract to build an emergency propulsion system for the next-generation spacecraft Orion that would allow the crew to separate from the rest of the craft in the event of an emergency.
The contract will create 50 jobs in Maryland, most of them at the company’s plant in Elkton but also some in Baltimore and Cumberland. Read more
