P&W Overhauls First Shuttle LOX Turbopump

HIGH-TECH OVERHAUL Pratt & Whitney has delivered the first overhauled high-pressure liquid oxygen turbopump for a space shuttle main engine to Boeing Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power, the SSME prime contractor. The LOX turbopump flew six times in the course of seven years before it was returned to P...

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