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Avio picks developer for first US rocket motor production facility (spacenews.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers to c/spaceflight

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Avio seeks to provide additional capacity to the industrial base for large solid rocket motor boosters in the United States

For what rockets? SLS and Vulcan are the only American rockets with SRBs. Also still Minotaur, but I'll keep ignoring that. So, does Avio want to compete with Northrop for SLS and Vulcan?

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

SLS and Vulcan are the only American rockets with SRBs.

No, that can't be right... there's also, uh, also... hmm, so you're correct.

They do mention that the "core focus would be on missiles for U.S. government tactical needs" and that the space side of things was more of an afterthought. Maybe they're anticipating that some of the upcoming liquid fueled rockets will want to strap on some SRBs for a bit of extra performance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This isn't Kerbal Space Program, they can't just stick some SRBs on as an afterthought.

Maybe Terran R will keep slowly turning into Ariane R, including some Vega SRBs. Or Avio will copy Northrop's homework and bid VegA for a DoD contract. Or they want to steal SLS BOLE. Or... or they're cool with just selling rockets for missiles and reminding people that they also do launch vehicles.