Sacramento, Calif.-based Aerojet said Nov. 22 that it successfully completed vibration, shock and hot-fire design verification testing on its first MR-104G monopropellant thruster planned for use on ...

Spaceflight is inherently dangerous. It takes a certain type of person to willingly strap into what’s essentially a refined bomb and hope for the best. But what might not be so obvious is that the ...

When a malfunctioning U.S. spy satellite threatened to fall out of orbit in February 2008, military officials took the unusual step of blasting the spacecraft to bits with a well-aimed missile. Most ...

After 47 years it’s little wonder that the hydrazine-powered thrusters of the Voyager 1, used to orient the spacecraft in such a way that its 3.7 meter (12 foot) diameter antenna always points back ...

Maneuvering thrusters supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne guided Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft to its ninth successful berthing to the International Space Station May 24. The Cygnus arrived three ...

SSTL is leading a consortium that has received a grant award from Innovate UK, Britain’s science and technology stimulus agency to produce what SSTL said will be a “flight-ready concept” of a High ...

Launch vehicles and their enormous rocket engines tend to receive the lion’s share of attention when it comes to space-related propulsion, but launch only takes you to the edge of space — and space is ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne completed a successful test of its new green propellant for spacecraft, an alternative to hydrazine thrusters. Aerojet Rocketdyne completed a successful test of its new green ...

Additive manufacturing a la 3D printing has been all the rave since the debut of consumer-grade 3D printers spotlighted the technology a couple years back, but while consumer-grade printers are ...

VOYAGER THRUST: An updated version of a thruster originally developed for NASA’s Voyager spacecraft missions in the 1970s has been adapted by Aerojet for future space exploration vehicles, including ...