Comments on: Orbital ATK developing new rocket https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/orbital-atk-developing-new-rocket/ Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:20:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/orbital-atk-developing-new-rocket/#comment-976969 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:20:57 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=44992#comment-976969 Actually, it isn’t an SRB. That seemed to be the original plan when this NGL project was first broached awhile back. The segments will be the same size as Shuttle/SLS SRB segments, and they’ll still be expendable, but the propellant formulation is different and the cases are filament-wound carbon fiber composites, not metal. The NGL is, emphatically, not going to be a repurposing of Shuttle/SLS bits. I hope that proves to be a good thing. It will certainly be a different thing.

]]> By: fred https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/orbital-atk-developing-new-rocket/#comment-976913 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:24:09 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=44992#comment-976913 > To complete the rocket’s development the company says it needs to win a follow-up contract that the Air Force has been issuing to help ween the U.S. from the use of Russian rocket engines.

LOL.

Goin to the trough for some good, ol’ gov’t pork.

What a joke. It is an existing SRB, paid for with NASA pork and they want AF pork to pay for it again? It’s an SRB … not at all what the engine pork is intended for.

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