Aerojet Rocketdyne has secured a contract to provide the Department of Energy with two units of thermoelectric generators designed for deep space missions. The company said Friday it will fabricate, deliver and test a couple of Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators that would support possible missions to explore Saturn’s moon Titan and Neptune’s largest moon Triton.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Concludes Kerosene-Based Rocket Engine Assembly
Aerojet Rocketdyne has wrapped up the construction of an oxygen-rich staged combustion kerosene engine funded by the U.S. Air Force, and is now looking to test its first rocket motor, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Engines to Undergo NASA Space Launch System Tests
NASA is scheduled to conduct a hot fire test for four engines built by Aerojet Rocketdyne for the Space Launch System Jan. 17 as part of a series of “Green Run” trials for the vehicle's core stage.
Read More »James Taiclet: Lockheed-Aerojet Rocketdyne Deal to Drive Tech Integration Work for Federal Clients
James Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, said acquiring Aerojet Rocketdyne will bring in propulsion systems for potential integration with Lockheed-built missile and rocket offerings, Via Satellite reported Monday. Taiclet told analysts Monday during a conference call he expects the transaction to support upfront design, production planning and engineering integration efforts at the Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace and defense company.
Read More »AFRL-Aerojet Rocketdyne Team Wraps Up Scramjet Engine Hot-Fire Tests
Aerojet Rocketdyne and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory conducted hot-fire tests for an 18-foot air-breathing hypersonic engine built in support of the Medium Scale Critical Components initiative.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Reaches 5,000th Missile Engine Delivery Milestone
Aerojet Rocketdyne has hit a new milestone for its solid rocket flight motor with the delivery of the 5,000th unit to power Raytheon Technologies' Stinger missile system.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Opens Arkansas Production Facility for Large Solid Rocket Motors
Aerojet Rocketdyne has reached full operations at a 17K-square-foot facility in Camden, Arkansas, for engineering and manufacturing development of large solid rocket motors.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Furthers Propulsion System Test for DARPA Hypersonics Program
A propulsion technology Aerojet Rocketdyne developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's hypersonic missile development program, called Operational Fires, has undergone a second round of tests. The company said Tuesday it conducted cold gas tests of OpFires propulsion system components seven months after completion of subscale test firings.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes Engine Production for NASA’s Crewed Flight Mission; Eileen Drake Quoted
Aerojet Rocketdyne has fulfilled its task to produce hardware necessary for the propulsion of the rocket that would send a crewed Orion spacecraft around the moon as part of NASA's second Artemis mission. The company said Monday it completed the RL10 and RS-25 engines for the Space Launch System in support of Artemis II, the second integrated SLS-Orion flight and the first lunar flyby with crew.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Reaches THAAD Motor, Control Tech Delivery Milestone; Eileen Drake Quoted
Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed delivery of a milestone 600th delivery of boost motor and divert-and-attitude control system to the Missile Defense Agency's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense program.
Read More »APL Integrates Aerojet Rocketdyne-Built Propulsion Tech for NASA’s DART Mission; Eileen Drake Quoted
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has integrated chemical and electrical propulsion systems from Aerojet Rocketdyne into a spacecraft for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Large Rocket Motor Static Fire Test; Eileen Drake Quoted
Aerojet Rocketdyne has demonstrated the static fire performance of a new solid rocket motor designed to provide bolstered propulsion with reduced operational and production requirements.
Read More »Raytheon Secures $1B Strategic Agreement for Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Systems; Eugene Jaramillo, Eileen Drake Quoted
Raytheon Company Missile Systems has secured a five-year, $1B strategic agreement to purchase propulsion systems from Aerojet Rocketdyne for standard missile products, the company announced on Thursday.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne: NASA Should Simplify Lunar Lander Architecture for Artemis Mission
An Aerojet Rocketdyne study has found that using liquid hydrogen for propulsion systems supporting the lunar lander could pose risks because currently available cryogenic fluid management capabilities may not be mature enough, SpaceNews reported Monday.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Integrates Vacuum Chamber Into Engineering Facility; Eileen Drake Quoted
Aerojet Rocketdyne has incorporated a vacuum chamber casting into its Camden, N.J.-based engineering, manufacturing and development facility to support production efforts for large solid rocket motors.
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