Propulsion and components
West Palm Beach rocket engine plant
The Palm Beach County plant where the RL10 upper stage engine is designed, manufactured, assembled and tested [ARRL10][FMN][LHXSEC]. Three successive operators hold the plant inside this map's window.
- Entity type
- manufacturing facility
- 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
- 1966
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1966 · 1966: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
- Role
- upper stage engine plant
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. RL10 design, manufacture, assembly and test.
- 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
- 4
- Betweenness
- 0.1419 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [ARRL10] [FMN] [LHXSEC]
Connections
Ownership and corporate lineage
- predecessor of ←Pratt and Whitney West Palm Beachthe Palm Beach County engine development center precedes and surrounds the rocket engine plant [RTXPW] [ARRL10]1958 onward
Property, facility and development
- operates site ←Aerojet Rocketdynethe propulsion company holds the West Palm Beach plant [LHXSEC]2013 to 2023
- operates site ←2026 onward
Industrial production and service
- manufactures →1963 onward