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Aerojet Rocketdyne Welcomes Jim Simpson as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Sept. 9, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE:AJRD) today announced that Jim Simpson will join the company on Sept. 21 as senior vice president, Strategy and Business Development. Simpson will report directly to CEO and President Eileen Drake and will serve as one of the officers of the company. Simpson previously spent 35 years…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes Delivery of 100th SM-3 Block IB TDACS
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Aug. 26, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE:AJRD) announced today that it has completed the delivery of the 100th Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS) for Raytheon’s Standard Missile‑3 (SM‑3) Block IB guided missile system. “The delivery of the 100th TDACS marks a significant milestone in the history of the SM‑3 Block IB…
Sierra Nevada Corporation Expands Solar Array Design, Test and Production Capability
SPARKS, Nev. (Aug. 20, 2015) – Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems continues to expand its Space Technologies product line, by growing its capability in solar array design, production and verification, which includes a broad portfolio of flight-proven mechanisms, components and complex subsystems. As announced in late 2014, SNC was awarded a contract to develop…
A Propulsion System for Green Propellant Infusion Mission Completed
Aerojet Rocketdyne Ships the Green Propellant Propulsion Subsystem to Ball Aerospace SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has completed delivery of a green propellant propulsion subsystem that will be used to test a non-toxic fuel on NASA’s future spacecraft, the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM). The subsystem was delivered to GPIM…
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RS-25 Engine Completes Key Full-Duration Test
SACRAMENTO, Calif., August 13, 2015 – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) announced today that it successfully completed a full duration (535 seconds) verification test of its RS-25 rocket engine that will power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), America’s next generation heavy-lift launch vehicle. Today’s test, conducted at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, was the sixth test in…
Dynetics Performs Successful Proof and Burst Test of SLS ABEDRR Tank
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 11, 2015 – Dynetics has successfully performed a proof and burst test of the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster Engineering Demonstration and/or Risk Reduction (ABEDRR) tank, verifying the structural design of the affordable booster concept. This work is part of a contract NASA awarded Dynetics in the fall of 2012 and…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports ULA Launch of Wideband Global SATCOM Spacecraft for U.S. Military
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (July 23, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) played a major role in successfully launching and placing the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-7) spacecraft into orbit for the U.S. military. The mission lifted off from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Plays Critical Role in Historic Pluto Flyby
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (July 10, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) is playing a critical role in the historic flyby of Pluto and its five known moons with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which has traveled nearly three billion miles in just under 10 years to reach the dwarf planet. New Horizons is the first spacecraft to…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Tests PowerTrain™ Solar Electric Propulsion Concept
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (July 9, 2015) – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has successfully built and tested a prototype system designed to improve the way power is delivered from the solar arrays to the high-power electric thrusters on Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) spacecraft. The prototype was tested in a simulated mission environment to show that it could…
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Modified XR 5 Hall Thruster Demonstrates Successful On-Orbit Operation
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 1, 2015 – Aerojet Rocketdyne’s (NYSE:AJRD) improved XR‑5 Hall Thruster (designated XR‑5A) has successfully completed initial on-orbit validation testing on the unmanned X‑37 space plane, which is presently on its fourth mission in space. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Space and Missile Systems Center, and Rapid Capabilities Office collaborated to host the…