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Delivery of the DART spacecraft bus from Aerojet Rocketdyne to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory was delayed about a month and a half because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ball Aerospace built the GPIM satellite on its BCP-100 smallsat platform with five thrusters supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne.
In May, NASA awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1,790,000,000 contract to produce 18 RS-25 engines for the SLS core stage.
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s new RS-25 production contract is planned to phase in a 30% cost reduction over the duration of the contract and the company is studying ways to reach a 50% cost reduction compared to the Space Shuttle Main Engine.
About 60–70 percent of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s workforce has been working from home during the coronavirus pandemic while the company has brought in employees under new safety protocols to continue RS-25 engine work.
NASA awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1,790,000,000 contract on 2020-05-01 to produce 18 RS-25 engines for future Space Launch System flights.
Aerojet and NASA studies are examining replacing the nozzle internal tubes with a slotted channel design and using additive manufacturing for the powerhead to achieve an additional 20 percent cost reduction for a total 50 percent reduction and to cut production time from four years to three years.
Aerojet attributes the 30 percent cost reductions to application of additive manufacturing, reducing the number of parts in the engine, and using manufacturing practices from the company's RS-68 engine developed for Delta IV.
Initial Orion missions will use Orbital Maneuvering System engines originally built for the space shuttle program by Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Aerojet Rocketdyne provided the five AJ-60A solid rocket boosters for the Atlas 5 551 launch.
Aerojet Rocketdyne completed an extensive analysis of potential lunar lander architectures and provided the results to NASA at the end of 2019.
Aerojet Rocketdyne was one of 11 companies that received NextSTEP contracts from NASA in May 2019 to perform initial design studies of lunar lander concepts.
Tim Kokan, principal engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne, presented the company’s lunar lander study at a 2020-01-30 meeting of the Future In-Space Operations group.
A study by Aerojet Rocketdyne concluded that a human return to the Moon by 2024 would require minimizing the number of launches for the lunar lander and using storable rather than cryogenic propellants.
Aerojet Rocketdyne concluded that achieving a 2024 lunar mission would require storable propellant solutions for ascent and descent elements and use of SLS to lift at least the descent element.
Aerojet Rocketdyne evaluated an integrated lander concept in which both ascent and descent elements would be launched on the cargo EUS version of SLS with crew launching on SLS/Orion to near-rectilinear halo orbit.
Aerojet Rocketdyne estimates the Camden plant cost more than $15,000,000 to build.
Aerojet Rocketdyne expects the 17,000-square-foot Camden facility to open for business later this spring.
The vacuum chamber casting bell was relocated to Camden from Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Sacramento facility, where it was used to produce large rocket boosters for the Atlas 5.
Aerojet Rocketdyne installed a steel casting bell at its new facility in Camden, Arkansas to develop and produce large solid rocket motors.