ULA Prepares for Atlas V Takeoff
United Launch Alliance has positioned an Atlas V rocket on a vertical integration platform at Cape Canaveral in Florida in preparation for a scheduled launch in February, Spaceflight Now reported Monday.
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United Launch Alliance has positioned an Atlas V rocket on a vertical integration platform at Cape Canaveral in Florida in preparation for a scheduled launch in February, Spaceflight Now reported Monday.
Aerojet Rocketdyne has handed over to NASA four rocket engines that are slated for integration into the core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System rocket.
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United Launch Alliance has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to provide an upper stage engine technology to help power ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. The space launch company said Friday Aerojet Rocketdyne will build RL10 propulsion systems and develop an RL10C-X variant as part of a 10-year partnership agreement between the companies. “Key determining factors to our selection included price and […] More
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Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted hot-fire tests on a full-scale thrust chamber assembly the company built using a three-dimensional printing method that incorporated selective laser melting technology. The company said Monday that the Defense Production Act Title III program management office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base facilitated tests of the 3D-printed thrust chamber for the RL10 rocket engine. RL10’s copper thrust chamber will replace […] More
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