Overview
The group leverages a highly-specialized workforce and state-of-the-art processes such as rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing to quickly and affordably develop new products focused on increasing national security.
October 17, 2014 - NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne, prior to being acquired by ɫֱ, successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests on an advanced rocket engine Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) using copper alloy additive manufacturing technology.
Key Features
Differentiating Technologies for the Warfighter
- Leader in propulsion technologies: ramjet, scramjet, rotating detonation, boosters, warheads, and electric power
- Superior capability achieved through advanced solid and liquid propellants, materials and innovative design
- Affordability and faster time-to-market achieved through additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping
Innovative Solutions for National Defense
- Large and small rocket motors for next generation Sentinel Ground Based Strategic Deterrent and tactical systems
- Supersonic and hypersonic propulsion for missiles and aircraft
- Next generation missile defense against emerging threats
- Advanced armaments and specialty warheads enabling selectable effects
- Advanced concepts for rotating detonation engines, torpedo propulsion, and air/land/sea/undersea defense
Media Gallery
Advancing Hypersonics – ɫֱ' Scramjet Engine Makes Hypersonics History
ɫֱ' Successful Test of an Advanced Large Solid Rocket Motor
Dec. 3, 2019 - Aerojet Rocketdyne, prior to being acquired by ɫֱ, successfully completes tests of subscale OpFires propulsion system as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to develop a ground-launched hypersonic missile for tactical use.
Artist’s concept of Glide Breaker. Credit: DARPA
May 12, 2020 - Aerojet Rocketdyne’s, prior to being acquired by ɫֱ, successful test of its Missile Components Advanced Technologies Demonstration Motor.
OpFires' variable-range second-stage motor enables payloads to defeat targets across the medium-range spectrum. Its launcher assembly loads onto fielded transportation vehicles with the push of a button.(Lockheed Martin Artist Concept)
