Production
As of August 2011, SpaceX is producing Merlin engines at the rate of eight per month, planning eventually to raise production to 400 engines per year.
The Merlin LOX/RP-1 turbopump is manufactured by Barber-Nichols.
Read more about this topic: Merlin (rocket Engine)
Famous quotes containing the word production:
“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally to be nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)