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Aerojet and Orbital Complete Main Engine Lifetime Testing for Taurus II Space Launch Vehicle: Russian Tests of Heritage NK-33 Rocket Engine Confirm Performance and Durability Engine Completes Two Times Normal Firing Duration of a Taurus II Launch Profile
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 15, 2010 – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, and Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), along with Aerojet’s Russian partner, SNTK, announced today that a series of NK-33 rocket engine tests conducted in Samara, Russia were successfully completed in support of the development of Orbital’s Taurus® II space launch vehicle.
Aerojet Supports Launch and Orbital Placement of GOES-P
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 10, 2010 -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, played a key role in the successful launch of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-P (GOES-P) satellite built by The Boeing Company [NYSE:BA] for this NASA and NOAA cooperative mission. Aerojet provided reaction control thrusters for the Delta IV upper stage, as well as a bipropellant chemical propulsion engine for the GOES-P satellite.
ORBITAL AND AEROJET SET TO BEGIN AJ26 ROCKET ENGINE TESTING AT STENNIS SPACE CENTER -- Arrival of \"Pathfinder\" Engine to Kick Off Three-Month Testing Process for Taurus II First Stage Propulsion System --
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(Dulles, VA 24 February 2010) -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) and Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company — two of the world’s leading space technology corporations — today announced the initiation of the AJ26 rocket engine testing process for Orbital’s Taurus® II medium-class launch vehicle with the delivery of a “pathfinder” engine to NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The AJ26 is Aerojet’s liquid-fuel rocket engine that Orbital will use to power the first stage of the Taurus II space launch vehicle currently in development. The pathfinder engine will be used to verify test stand interfaces, engine handling processes, and test configurations prior to the commencement of the series of “hot fire” tests that are planned to begin in April.
Aerojet Propulsion Key to NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Spacecraft Positioning
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2010 – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced its key role in the positioning of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite which was launched aboard the Atlas V on Feb. 11 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. SDO is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program and will help scientists understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere in detail.
Aerojet Engines Integral to STS-130s Mission to Expand International Space Station
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 10, 2010 – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced that its engines contributed to Space Shuttle Endeavour’s (STS-130) on-orbit operations and docking to the International Space Station (ISS). Endeavour lifted off on Feb. 8 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked with the ISS this morning.