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Rocket Lab Selects Alaska Aerospace Corporation For Electron Launch Range Safety
LOS ANGELES, Cali. (Nov. 3, 2015) Rocket Lab announced they have selected Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) to provide range safety support for their upcoming Electron launches in 2016. AAC’s core business area is space launch. It developed, owns, and operates the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska (PSCA), a state-of-the-industry spaceport that provides access to planetary orbital…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports ULA Launch of Navigation Satellite for U.S. Military
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Oct. 31, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AJRD), helped successfully propel another in a series of Global Positioning Systems (GPS IIF) military navigation satellites into orbit today. The latest mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA)…
Kincaid Elementary Student Project Features the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska
ANCHORAGE, AK (Oct. 26, 2015) – Tatym Doucet, a sixth grade student at Kincaid Elementary School in Anchorage, Alaska built a replica of the Launch Service Structure at the Pacific Spaceport Complex — Alaska (PSCA) as her class project. Tatym, who visits Kodiak each summer, was inspired for the project when she went out to…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Subsystems for the Orion Spacecraft Complete Major Review
The Jettison Motor and Crew Module Reaction Control System for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft are on Track for a 2018 Launch after Completing Critical Design Reviews SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 9, 2015 – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) announces the critical design review (CDR) completion for the jettison motor and the crew module reaction control system (RCS) on…
Dynetics Technical Services Receives Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., (Oct. 8, 2015) – Dynetics Technical Services (DTS) received the 2015 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, an award DTS also received for 2013. DTS was recognized, along with several other large and small business prime contractors, subcontractors and civil service teams, during the 2015 Industry…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Supported United Launch Alliance’s Successful Atlas V Mission for National Reconnaissance Office
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Oct. 8, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) played a significant role in successfully launching a national security payload into orbit for the U.S. government. The mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, with an RL10C-1 upper-stage engine, six helium pressurization…
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser® Program Preparing for Second Free-Flight Test and First Orbital Test
SPARKS, Nev. (October 7, 2015) – In anticipation of a second phase of flight testing, Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems has announced significant updates to two Dream Chaser® spacecraft currently in development. The spacecraft are the atmospheric engineering test article (ETA) and the advanced composite orbital vehicle, which when tested will undergo a suborbital…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Propels Communications Satellite into Orbit for the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Oct. 2, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) played a significant role in placing the Morelos-3 communications satellite into orbit for the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation. The mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V…
Dynetics and Aerojet Rocketdyne Team Performs Successful Gas Generator Test Using Additively Manufactured Component
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., (Sept. 16, 2015) – The Dynetics and Aerojet Rocketdyne team recently performed with its NASA partner the second successful gas generator test series of the F-1 engine as part of the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster Engineering Demonstration and/or Risk Reduction (ABEDRR) contract. This test series was unique, however, in that a…
Sierra Nevada Corporation Announces New Dream Chaser® Spacecraft – Designated Landing Site Program
SPARKS, Nev. (September 10, 2015) – Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems announces the launch of a new program, the Dream Chaser®-Preferred Landing Site Program, in which SNC will work with spaceports and commercial airports to become a designated landing site for the Dream Chaser spacecraft. “The number of applicants requesting spaceport licenses both domestically…