Boeing is closing its Delta II launch vehicle manufacturing plant in Pueblo, Colorado, and transferring operations to its Delta IV plant in Decatur, Alabama, in a money-saving consolidation of Delta production work.
Pueblo is the final assembly site for the Delta II, while fabrication is conducted at Boeing's Huntington Beach, California, plant. Only 160 of the 250 staff at Peublo will be transferred to Decatur, which was selected by Boeing in 1997 as the manufacturing site for the Delta IV's common core booster stage. The stages are shipped by barge via the Tennessee River to the Cape Canaveral, Florida, launch site, where final assembly takes place.
Source: Flight International
