Aerojet Rocketdyne Staying In Game To Replace RD-180
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Credit: Atlas V launch: U.S. Air Force
COLORADO SPRINGS—Propulsion engineers at Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJR) are banking on their company’s long experience building large rocket engines to see its AR1 kerosene engine become the replacement for the Russian RD-180 to launch future U.S. national security payloads. While newcomer Blue Origin...
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