Aerojet Rocketdyne has joined an industry-government team that will work on an upcoming satellite launch mission to demonstrate the use of AF-M315E, a non-toxic propellant. The company said Thursday it will work with NASA, Ball Aerospace and Air Force Research Laboratory to prepare for the Green Propellant Infusion Mission scheduled to launch on June 24 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a new facility in Huntsville, Ala. designed to manufacture rocket propulsion technologies, as part of the company’s intention to expand in the city.

An Aerojet Rocketdyne subsidiary has demonstrated an air launch extraction and descent platform for target missile simulators under a contract with the Missile Defense Agency.

Aerojet Rocketdyne broke ground Thursday on its engineering, manufacturing and development site in Camden, Ark., for solid rocket motors.

Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said the company wants to test its AR1 rocket engine this year after securing a $353.8M contract to continue its development, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

Sixteen Aerojet Rocketdyne-built engines and flight controllers have passed acceptance trials to fly on four planned NASA flights of  the Space Launch System.

Astronauts have completed installation of six new Aerojet Rocketdyne-built Lithium-ion batteries on the International Space Station to replace the facility’s aging nickel hydrogen power packs.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential two-year, $13.4M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop propulsion systems for a ground-launched tactical weapon platform. The contract was awarded in support of DARPA’s Operational Fires program that aims to build new mobile missile technologies, the company said Tuesday. The OpFires …

Aerojet Rocketdyne has built the propulsion devices that powered a NASA spacecraft during a journey to Mars as part of a mission to study the planet’s seismology, rotation and internal temperature. InSight, which landed Monday on the Martian surface, used MR-107N 50 engines, an RL10C-1 main engine, MR-106 reaction control thrusters and MR-111C thrusters …

Aerojet Rocketdyne has appointed Kevin Chilton, a 34-year U.S. Air Force veteran and 11-year NASA astronaut, to the company’s board of directors. Chilton’s previous military roles include vice chief of staff and program director for the Air Force and director of politico-military affairs for Asia, Pacific and the Middle East, …

Aerojet Rocketdyne has received its remaining order of RS-25 engine flight controllers for the first four flights of the Space Launch System from Honeywell. Aerojet said Wednesday it now has 18 flight controllers in its inventory at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The controllers allows rocket communication while moderating engine thrust intensity …

Aerojet Rocketdyne has concluded a test of a thruster system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of Exploration Mission-1. The company said Monday it conducted the qualification test at its Redmond, Wash.-based facility to demonstrate the reaction control system’s capability to …

Aerojet Rocketdyne has concluded a series of tests for a new dual-mode ramjet/scramjet engine in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday the DMRJ demonstrated its ability to power a vehicle from a dormant state to hypersonic flight regime …

Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO Eileen Drake has announced that the company plans to acquire more companies or product lines as part of its Competitive Improvement Program, Space News reported Wednesday. The firm is focusing on mergers and acquisitions as its debt load decreased from $464.4M in May 2015 to $102.2M in …

NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have completed a second ground-based assessment of an engine controller for the Space Launch System exploration rocket. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday the RS-25 engine underwent eight minutes of test firing as part of an effort to verify its flight readiness and the performance of its modified components. The engine features modernized …