Cool article about rocket motor production

[kenstarr]

Article from KSL, Utah News station
Boosting booster production!

$2 billion contract to create 200 Utah jobs to boost rocket booster production
https://www.ksl.com/article/5041977...-utah-jobs-to-boost-rocket-booster-production

 

[BigMacDaddy]

Cool article -- but I was hoping for a behind the scenes tour of the Goex or Estes factory

 

[dhbarr]

Article from KSL, Utah News station
Boosting booster production!

$2 billion contract to create 200 Utah jobs to boost rocket booster production
https://www.ksl.com/article/5041977...-utah-jobs-to-boost-rocket-booster-production

Now I just need that to translate to a reduction in the cost of surplus AP.

 

[kenstarr]

It's 1600mm motor! I like the 63 and 63XL designation. Reminds me of the CTI 6g and 6gXL cases

 

[cwbullet]

63-inch diameter booster - that's huge.

 

[aerostadt]

This article says that they are going to make 75 motors per year. That is a lot of solid propellant!
https://spacenews.com/northrop-grum...ocket-motors-following-big-contract-from-ula/

 

[MadRocketer]

I wonder how they get it from Utah to the launch pad.

 

[kenstarr]

I wonder how they get it from Utah to the launch pad.

Truck or train I would imagine. Over to the west of me and hour or so they used to build the shuttle boosters. There was a fella in my neighborhood who was an engineer there and told me that once the unit was fully assembled (not sure if that meant in Utah or at the launch facility) one of his jobs was climbing through the motor to install the ignition assemblies in the fore end!