NASA extends P&W Rocketdyne contract to cover lunar lander descent engine
LUNAR DESCENT: NASA has extended Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) development contract originally awarded in 2005 to cover a descent engine for the future Altair lunar lander. Pratt is testing a throttle-able version of the venerable 13,800-pound thrust RL10 for...
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