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Space

Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes CDRs For Orion Subsystems

Pat Host

Friday, October 16th, 2015

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Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes CDRs For Orion Subsystems

United Launch Alliance engineers and technicians prepare in November to lift the agency's Orion spacecraft for mounting atop its Delta IV Heavy rocket. Photo: NASA.

Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] in August completed critical design reviews (CDR) for the jettison motor and crew module reaction control system (RCS) it is developing for NASA’s Orion crew module, according to a company statement.Aerojet Rocketdyne is now able to begin manufacturing hardware for installation into Orion for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), which is slated for launch readiness in 2018. This would also be the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Aerojet Rocketdyne Program Director for Human Space Samuel…

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