Propulsion and components
RL10 engine
The upper stage engine built in West Palm Beach, described by its manufacturer as the nation's premier upper stage engine for nearly sixty years, and the component that ties Palm Beach County to Vulcan launches from the Cape [ARRL10][FMN].
- Entity type
- rocket engine
- Kind
- vehicle
- Lane
- Propulsion and components
- Place
- West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County
- Hub region
- Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast
- Founding year
- 1963
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1963 · 1963: West Palm Beach rocket engine plant manufactures RL10 engine (1963 onward)
- Role
- upper stage engine
- Status as of the cutoff
- In production. Flies on Vulcan Centaur upper stages.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 3
- Betweenness
- 0.1560 on the full graph · 0.0111 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [ARRL10] [FMN]
Connections
Industrial production and service
- manufactures ←West Palm Beach rocket engine plantthe plant designs, manufactures, assembles and tests the engine [ARRL10] [FMN]1963 onward
- powers →Vulcan Centaurthe West Palm Beach engine flies on the Centaur upper stage [ARRL10]2024 onward
- powers →Atlas Centaurthe RL10 makes the first in flight liquid hydrogen burn on the Centaur stage [NTRSRL10] [NASACENT]1963