
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] in late October successfully completed the first flight of a two-stage stack of solid rocket motors (SRMs), validating performance objectives to allow the Zeus rocket to transition to support testing by potential customers. The Zeus 1 and 2 large SRMs are supplied by L3Harris Technologies’ [LHX] Aerojet business and built to specifications created by Kratos in collaboration with customers. Kratos expects to have production ready motors in 2025 with deliveries beginning in the first…