Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its 100-lbf High Performance Apogee Thruster (HiPAT™) bipropellant engine, integrated into a propulsion system built by Space Systems/Loral (SSL), enabled NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to achieve lunar orbit on Oct. 6. The HiPAT™ performed two phasing burns, each of which increased the … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to an intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second generation Aegis BMD Weapon System and SM-3 Block IB guided missile. During Flight Test Standard Missile-22 (FTM-22), the SM-3 guided missile intercepted and destroyed a separating ballistic missile target during … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp company (NYSE:GY), announced today that its propulsion helped position Orbital Sciences Corporation’s (NYSE:ORB) Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft for a successful berthing with the International Space Station (ISS). Following in-orbit activation shortly after launch on Sept. 18, Cygnus carried out a series of tests and maneuvers using 32 Aerojet Rocketdyne MR-106M 7 … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, has received the prestigious 2013 John R. Alison Award for its work on the X-51A WaveRider from the Air Force Association (AFA). The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle, powered by Aerojet Rocketdyne’s SJY61 scramjet engine, achieved aviation history by making the longest-ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight, flying full duration and … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced that its AJ60 Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), RL10A-4-2 upper-stage engine, and multiple spacecraft attitude control thrusters played a major role in yesterday’s launch of the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency Space Vehicle 3 (SV-3) aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. „Our record of mission … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to the first attempted and successful salvo engagement of two Raytheon Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missiles against a ballistic missile target. The SM-3 Block IB guided missile is part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) … Dowiedz się więcej