The #Aerojet #AJ110 #rocket #engine was selected for the #Apollo #spacecraft during the initial design phase, when the plan was to land the entire Command and Service Modules on the Moon directly.
This “direct ascent” plan was abandoned later, but the work to revise the engine would be excessive so it remained.
The AJ110 went on to power the Space Shuttle, the Delta-K upper stage and the Orion capsule.

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#ApolloServiceModule

Gateway - Full Configuration Hero Image - 121123 🌑🧑‍🚀

#Aerojet #AerojetRocketdyne #Artemis #CSA #Canadarm #Canadarm3 #CanadianSpaceAgency #DSL

▶️ 1 new picture from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gateway_-_Full_Configuration_Hero_Image_-_121123.png

🌑🧑‍🚀 1 new picture from NASA
- GRC-2023-C-04821

#Aerojet #AerojetRocketdyne #Artemis #GRC #Glenn #GlennResearchCenter #Maxar #MaxarTechnologies #PPE #PowerandPropulsionElement

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"L3Harris Completes Aerojet Rocketdyne Acquisition"

"Aerojet Rocketdyne will be known as Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company."

https://www.l3harris.com/newsroom/press-release/2023/07/l3harris-completes-aerojet-rocketdyne-acquisition

#Aerojet #AerojetRocketdyne #L3Harris #Raumfahrt #Rocketdyne #Spaceflight

28.7.2023

#floridatoday:

"Melbourne-based #L3Harris set to acquire #AerojetRocketdyne in $4.7 billion deal"

"Brevard County-based L3Harris has agreed to a $4.7 billion deal to acquire #Aerojet #Rocketdyne, the company that makes the #rocket engines used in #NASA's Artemis moon program."

"In October, the company acquired Viasat, Inc.'s Tactical Data Links product line .."

https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/money/business/2022/12/19/l3harris-inks-4-7-billion-deal-to-acquire-aerojet-rocketdyne/69739932007/

#Raumfahrt #USA

19.12.2022