JF Mezei wrote:
On 2016-09-01 21:08, Fred J. McCall wrote:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016...25-production/
Thanks for update. Last I had read, NASA was still mulling on whether to
make serious updates to RS25 or just do the minor sensor/software ones
it had done already. Looks like they chose the later.
I was unaware that NASA had gone as far as getting 1 billion bucks to
give to Rocketdyne to think about restarting production.
Does Rocketdyne actually have the go ahead to produce those 6 engines?
or will that be a separate contract ?
What does the story say?
No, they do not have a contract to actually produce engines. There
are provisions in the current contract to allow it to be extended
(with more money, presumably) to produce 6 engines.
In other words, what's going on is precisely what I originally said.
They're tooling up to produce engines.
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