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Air Force Studying Possible Commercial Role For Surplus ICBM Motors

By Marc Selinger

Monday, August 28th, 2017

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The U.S. Air Force plans to finish a study later in 2017 on the potential impact of changing existing law to allow surplus intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) motors to be used on commercial space launches, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report Aug. 16While the Department of Defense and NASA use such motors to launch small and medium payloads on Orbital ATK [OA] Minotaur rockets, the Commercial Space Act of 1998 bars the motors from commercial launches. The law…

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