ATK, EADS Astrium Joint Development

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ATK, EADS Astrium To Develop Liberty Rocket.

The Wall Street Journal (2/8, B3, Pasztor, subscription required) reports on how Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and EADS Astrium are going to announce a partnership today where they will develop a commercial rocket to launch astronauts. The Liberty rocket would combine technology developed from the shuttle with liquid-propulsion technology from the Ariane 5 rocket. According to the article, this proposal puts pressure on Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and SpaceX, which are also developing commercial launchers.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...887509152.html

The team wants to build a low-cost commercial launcher (300 ft tall) to lift U.S. astronauts and scientific payloads into space. Looks similar to the proposed ARES launch vehicle.

viscousflow

With EADS on the team this is almost guaranteed to be a huge success. Good to see the commercial space market taking off. No pun intended.

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viscousflow	With EADS on the team this is almost guaranteed to be a huge success. Good to see the commercial space market taking off. No pun intended.