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The acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne created a fourth business segment at L3Harris Technologies.
L3Harris completed a $4,700,000,000 acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Defense Production Act funding of approximately $215,000,000 will be used to upgrade Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facilities, expand munitions production, and digitize engineering.
The U.S. Defense Department announced it would provide Aerojet Rocketdyne $215,600,000 in April 2023 to expand rocket propulsion manufacturing facilities.
In its final social media post as an independent company, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s tweet on 2023-07-28 read, 'We’re now part of L3Harris Technologies, where we’ll continue our innovations under its umbrella.'
Chris Kubasik, CEO of L3Harris Technologies, welcomed Aerojet Rocketdyne’s team of over 5,000 employees on 2023-07-27.
Lockheed Martin sought to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4,400,000,000 in December 2020, and that acquisition was blocked by the Federal Trade Commission.
In December, defense contractor L3Harris made a $4,700,000,000 bid to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Nearly two years earlier, Lockheed Martin sought to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne in a $4,400,000,000 bid that the Federal Trade Commission blocked.
The Zeus 1 motor was manufactured and tested at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Camden, Arkansas facility.
The Zeus 1 motor is the first of two high-performance LSRMs developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne under the Kratos Zeus Program.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is manufacturing the larger Zeus 2 motor, which is slated for testing at the Camden facility later 2023.
Aerojet Rocketdyne developed the Zeus 1, an advanced stage 1 Large Solid Rocket Motor (LSRM), at its facilities in Huntsville, Alabama.
The SLS core stage is powered by four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines, each capable of generating more than 226,796 kg of thrust.
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne will begin a similar 12-test series on a different RS-25 engine later this summer to complete the certification process.
Currently only Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne are supplying solid rocket motors to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Northrop Grumman is contracted to develop and produce five-segment solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System, while Aerojet Rocketdyne is contracted to adapt Space Shuttle Main Engines for the SLS core stage.
L3Harris Technologies plans to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7 billion, pending regulatory approval.
Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop an Electrically Actuated Quick-Disconnect Coupling for cislunar and lunar surface cryogenic propellant transfer with NASA Marshall.
Aerojet Rocketdyne in El Segundo, California received two 2022 ACO selections from NASA Marshall.