Thiokol
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Thiokol was an American aerospace and chemical company best known for manufacturing the solid rocket boosters used on NASA’s Space Shuttle.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thiokol canonical | 4 |
| Thiokol Corporation | 3 |
| Thiokol Chemical Corporation | 2 |
| ATK Thiokol (historical) | 1 |
| Thiokol (historical) | 1 |
| Thiokol Inc. | 1 |
| Thiokol Propulsion | 1 |
| Thiokol Propulsion division | 1 |
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace company
ⓘ
chemical company ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
NASA
ⓘ
Department of Defense ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developed |
polymer binders for solid propellants
ⓘ
synthetic rubber-based solid propellants ⓘ |
| facilityLocation |
Promontory Summit, Utah Territory
ⓘ
surface form:
Promontory, Utah
|
| foundedAs |
Thiokol
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Thiokol Chemical Corporation
|
| headquartersLocation | Utah ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace
ⓘ
chemicals ⓘ rocket propulsion ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster investigation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
manufacturing solid rocket boosters for NASA Space Shuttle
ⓘ
solid rocket motors ⓘ |
| laterOwnedBy |
Alliant Techsystems
ⓘ
surface form:
Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| laterPartOf |
Alliant Techsystems
ⓘ
surface form:
ATK Launch Systems
Alliant Techsystems ⓘ Northrop Grumman ⓘ
surface form:
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
|
| mergedInto | Morton Thiokol ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Minuteman missile solid rocket motors
ⓘ
Peacekeeper missile solid rocket motors ⓘ Solid Rocket Booster ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster program
|
| operated | large solid rocket motor test facilities in Utah ⓘ |
| parentCompanyAfterMerger | Morton International ⓘ |
| product |
elastomer products
ⓘ
rocket propellant ⓘ solid rocket boosters ⓘ solid rocket motors ⓘ |
| responsibilityInAccident | design and manufacture of SRB field joint O-rings ⓘ |
| roleInProgram | prime contractor for Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters ⓘ |
| specializedIn |
aerospace propulsion systems
ⓘ
industrial elastomers ⓘ solid propellant technology ⓘ |
| successor | Morton Thiokol ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Thiokol Description of subject: Thiokol was an American aerospace and chemical company best known for manufacturing the solid rocket boosters used on NASA’s Space Shuttle.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Chemical Corporation
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Chemical Corporation
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Corporation
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Inc.
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Propulsion
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Propulsion division
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Corporation
this entity surface form:
Thiokol (historical)
this entity surface form:
ATK Thiokol (historical)
this entity surface form:
Thiokol Corporation