Propulsion and components
Pratt and Whitney West Palm Beach
The Palm Beach County engine development and test center whose presence explains why rocket propulsion took root in the county [WPW].
- Entity type
- corporate operations site
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Propulsion and components
- Place
- West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County
- Hub region
- Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast
- Founding year
- 1958
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1958 · 1958: Pratt and Whitney West Palm Beach predecessor of West Palm Beach rocket engine plant (1958 onward)
- Role
- engine development center
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Engine development and test in Palm Beach County.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- public record entity
- Confidence
- Medium · reported coverage; the official source in the register documents the parent entity, not this Florida site
- Degree
- 1
- Betweenness
- 0.0000 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [RTXPW] [WPW]
Connections
Ownership and corporate lineage
- predecessor of →West Palm Beach rocket engine plantthe Palm Beach County engine development center precedes and surrounds the rocket engine plant [RTXPW] [ARRL10]1958 onward