United Launch Alliance will use the rocket-carrying RO/RO barge to move its Vulcan Centaur rockets.
Bristol, R.I., primarily based naval architect agency Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) was just lately chosen by United Launch Alliance (ULA) to design a river and ocean-going manned roll-on/roll-off barge for the transportation of its Vulcan Centaur rockets. The rocket-carrying RO/RO barge can be manned by an operations and cargo monitoring crew.
In assist of ULA’s aggressive solicitation for ship fabrication this summer time, BHGI will even support within the bidding course of for potential shipyards, together with answering any bidder questions, reviewing shipyard proposals and offering building oversight.
BHGI involves the venture workforce with the distinctive expertise gained from design work on NASA’s Pegasus barge, initially in-built 1999 to move house shuttle exterior tanks, then later transformed to move core parts for NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System (SLS).
BHGI makes a speciality of industrial vessel design and consulting and has expertise with tugs, barges, articulated tug/barge models (ATBs), passenger vessels, workboats, dredges and floating dry docks — and now rocket-carrying RO/RO barge.
