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And in the case of the engines, once those existing engines are used, Aerojet Rocketdyne has to spin up a new assembly line, and they are essentially a sole sou
by jlmorton 4y ago
And in the case of the engines, once those existing engines are used, Aerojet Rocketdyne has to spin up a new assembly line, and they are essentially a sole source contractor, so they can charge nearly whatever they want.
So what started out as a grand idea to reuse old Shuttle hardware ends up with Aerojet Rocketdyne charging $146 million per engine. Each. And there are four of them.
- Reason077 4y agoThose engines were designed to be re-usable and each were used on multiple Space Shuttle flights. Besides the huge cost, it seems super wasteful to be strapping them on to an expendable rocket!