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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Electric Propulsion Tech for NASA's Deep Space Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Electric Propulsion Tech for NASA’s Deep Space Plans

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed an early systems integration test of an electric propulsion technology designed to help NASA conduct deep space missions in the near future. The company said Tuesday it developed a 13-kilowatt Hall thruster string as part of the space agency’s Advanced Electric Propulsion System program and demonstrated the subsystem’s power elements that include discharge supply and […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands NASA Glenn Award for Work on Ion Rocket Propulsion System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands NASA Glenn Award for Work on Ion Rocket Propulsion System

    NASA‘s Glenn Research Center has named Aerojet Rocketdyne the “Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year” for the company’s development of the gridded ion thruster system for the Next Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial propulsion technology. The aerospace and defense firm said Monday its work on the system is part of an $18 million contract from 2015 for the completion of NEXT-C and […] More