Orion Ascent Abort-2 Test

The Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft was conducted at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on 2 July 2019, at 11:00 UTC (07:00 EDT). During the test, the Orion’s Launch Abort System (LAS) was launched atop an abort test booster provided by Northrop Grumman to an altitude of about 9,6 km (six miles) traveling at more than 1600km/h (1,000 miles per hour). The abort motor is designed to quickly whisk the crew module away from the booster, and the Attitude Control Motor (ACM