NGL

NGL - Next Generation Launch system

Capable of launching 5,500 – 8,500 kg to geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) and 5,250 – 7,000 kg geostationary equatorial orbit (GEO) with launch capability from both east and west coast launch facilities.

A US Air Force rocket for launching the entire spectrum of national security payloads, the NGL family of vehicles will be capable of launching science and commercial satellites that are too large to be launched by Orbital ATK's current Pegasus, Minotaur and Antares space launch vehicles.

The NGL is based on the Solid Rocket Boosters once flown by NASA’s space shuttle, and that will help lift the space agency's 322-foot SLS rocket, which is targeting a first flight in late 2019 or 2020.

Using a 12-foot-diameter booster segment using casings made with composites instead of steel. A test-firing of the intermediate rocket’s first and second stages is planned in 2019 in Utah.

Planned for 2021 launch of an intermediate version of the NGL rocket from KSC’s pad 39B.