completed a hot-fire test of its stage two advanced large solid rocket motor (SRM) for the Missile Defense Agency’s Next Generation Interceptor (NGI). L3Harris conducted the test as part of the Lockheed Martin team advancing the effort to strengthen the nation’s homeland missile defense.

The hot-fire test validated the system’s design integrity, as the SRM ignited and completed a full-duration burn, which provided valuable data to analyze performance characteristics ahead of advanced testing later this year. Engineers conducted the test in a simulated high-altitude, vacuum environment to evaluate system performance in the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere.