I don’t envy Jim Maser his job, especially if XCOR starts to manufacture an RL-10 replacement.
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I don’t envy Jim Maser his job, especially if XCOR starts to manufacture an RL-10 replacement.
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PWR is the largest U.S. maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines
SpaceX already has the manufacturing capacity to change that.
Also, Blue Origin considers propulsion one of the core competencies that it must not outsource (GNC being another), so I don’t see them coming to Rocketdyne either…
Looks like PWR is hoping to dust off the F1 for a liquid booster alternative to solids
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28693.0
Ah, so this is why he was so heated during his panel at the National Security Space symposium. He said that [the royal/federal] “we” need to make decisions about space investment and [paraphrasing] these “laissez-faire” business aren’t going to work. He became red in the face and looked and sounded like a man demagogueing his competitors by implying a lack of reliability (an area in which he counseled “we” could afford no risk) like his life depended on it. Running scared is how I took it at the time.