Comments on: ATK to get unfunded CCDev agreement?

By: ATK and Astrium unveil a full-fledged Liberty transportation system « NewSpace Journal

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:11:55 +0000

[…] companies didn’t win CCDev-2 funding but did get an unfunded Space Act Agreement to support continued study of the vehicle. In the meantime, though, the companies that did get […]

By: Kendall

Kendall — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:37:16 +0000

Arm Strong: any challenges getting Liberty working and man-rated can be overcome, the only question is time and cost. Any with CST-100 on the Atlas V, every project starts with one enormous bug: “Testing has determined the system needs to be designed and implemented”. Nothing new there!

There are a lot of dedicated and brilliant people working to get these systems not only working, but working reliably for low cost. This is a very exciting moment in space history!

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:28:57 +0000

I guess you can’t blame ATK for trying, and certainly it’s their right to give it their all.

Now if only they could get a paying customer to sign on, then that would be significant. But otherwise an unfunded SAA is worth as much as they are getting from NASA…

By: Arm Strong

Arm Strong — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:46:53 +0000

the Liberty rocket (like the Ares-1) can’t fly and the Atlas V + CST-100 hides a big bug