SpaceNews

Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Critical to Successful SM-3 Block IB Flight Test Standard Missile-22 Intercept

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to an intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second generation Aegis BMD ...
SpaceRef

Announcing Phase Four’s Maxwell Block 3 Plasma Propulsion Thruster: Exceeding Hall Effect Thruster Performance

Phase Four, Inc. (“Phase Four”), the creator of the radio-frequency thruster for satellite propulsion, announced today its highly anticipated Maxwell Block 3 turn-key plasma propulsion thruster. The ...
Aviation Week

Boeing Completes Resurrection Of F/A-18E/F With First Block III Delivery

Boeing on June 17 delivered the first F/A-18E/F Block III to the U.S. Navy to launch a yearlong testing campaign on a new configuration with around a $60 million flyaway cost that is currently being ...
GovCon Wire

Pratt & Whitney Awarded $517M in Navy Contract Modifications for F135, Propulsion System Block Four Flight Test Program

RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received two contract modifications worth $517.1 million combined from the U.S. Navy to deliver spares for the production of the F135 propulsion system ...
SpaceNews

Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Critical to Successful Intercept Test for SM-3 Block IIA Missile

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced today that its propulsion systems supported a key intercept test of Raytheon’s Standard Missile-3 Block IIA guided missile. During the FTM-45 flight test, conducted by the ...