The Rocketdyne H-1 was a 205,000 lbf (910 kN) thrust liquid-propellant rocket engine burning LOX and RP-1. The H-1 was developed for use in the S-I and...
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Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne is a subsidiary of American defense company L3Harris Technologies that manufactures rocket, hypersonic, and electric propulsive systems...
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The F-1 is a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne. The engine uses a gas-generator cycle developed in the United States in the late 1950s and was used...
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Rocketdyne's E-1 was a liquid propellant rocket engine originally built as a backup design for the Titan I missile. While it was being developed, Heinz-Hermann...
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RS-27 (redirect from Rocketdyne RS-27A)
developed in 1974 by Rocketdyne to replace the aging MB-3 in the Delta. Incorporating components of the venerable MB-3 and the H-1 designs, the RS-27 was...
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) was an American company that designed and produced rocket engines that use liquid propellants. It was a division of Pratt...
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The Rocketdyne AR2, also known by the military designation LR42, was a family of liquid-fuelled rocket engines designed and produced in the United States...
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Assembly Facility, New Orleans. It was powered by eight Rocketdyne H-1 rocket engines burning RP-1 fuel with liquid oxygen (LOX). Eight Redstone tanks (four...
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and the rest were scrapped. Any surplus Rocketdyne H-1 first stage engines were rebranded as the Rocketdyne RS-27 engine for usage on active launch vehicles...
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Apollo program (section Apollo 1 fire)
orbit tests. The S-I first stage burned RP-1 with liquid oxygen (LOX) oxidizer in eight clustered Rocketdyne H-1 engines, to produce 1,500,000 pounds-force...
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one propellant tank built on Jupiter missile tooling, and used eight Rocketdyne H-1 (Jupiter) engines to form the first stage of the rockets. First developed...
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fins: 8 Finspan: 39.42 ft (12.02 m) Engines: 8 Rocketdyne H-1 Thrust: 1,600,000 lbf (7,100 kN) Fuel: RP-1 (Refined kerosene) 41,000 US gal (155 m3) Oxidizer:...
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The Rocketdyne S-3D is an American liquid rocket engine produced by Rocketdyne between 1956 and 1961 for use on the PGM-19 Jupiter and PGM-17 Thor missiles...
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SpaceX Merlin (redirect from Merlin 1)
The Merlin 1D is now close to the sea-level thrust of the retired Rocketdyne H-1 / RS-27 engines used on Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Delta II. On 23 February...
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RS-25 (redirect from Rocketdyne RS-25)
and manufactured in the United States by Rocketdyne (later Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Aerojet Rocketdyne), the RS-25 burns cryogenic (very low temperature)...
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manufacturing error causing destruction of the vehicle.[citation needed] The Rocketdyne H-1 engine, used in a cluster of eight in the first stage of the Saturn...
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RS-56 (category Rocketdyne engines)
engine, developed by Rocketdyne. RS-56 was derived from the RS-27 rocket engine, which itself is derived from the Rocketdyne H-1 rocket engine used in...
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approximately Mach 4.5 (3,000 mph; 4,800 km/h). The booster is then jettisoned and the vehicle's Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne SJY61 scramjet accelerates it to a...
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oxides of nitrogen. Robert H. Goddard's initial rockets used gasoline. While the RP-1 specification was being developed, Rocketdyne was experimenting with...
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L3Harris (section Aerojet Rocketdyne)
discontinuing its plans. In December 2022, L3Harris agreed to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings for $4.7 billion in cash. The acquisition was completed on 28...
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RL10 (redirect from Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10)
liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine built in the United States by Aerojet Rocketdyne that burns cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants. Modern...
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was a four-stage launch vehicle, using an S-I first stage with eight Rocketdyne H-1 engines, later flown on the Saturn I. The Army's original design used...
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2017 Boeing was selected to partner with DARPA to build the XS-1. Aerojet Rocketdyne was to provide AR-22 engines, derived from the RS-25 engine, for...
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Powered by 8 Rocketdyne H-1 Maximum thrust 8,241.763 kN (1,852,822 lbf) Specific impulse 296 s (2.90 km/s) Burn time 155 seconds Propellant RP-1/LOX Second...
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Artemis 1, officially Artemis I and formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission. As the first major spaceflight of NASA's...
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spacecraft that is being designed, developed and tested by NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne for large-scale science missions and cargo transportation. The first application...
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2017. Retrieved August 1, 2017. "Aerojet Rocketdyne gears up for first flight of Boeing's Starliner Spacecraft". Aerojet Rocketdyne. December 12, 2019. Archived...
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one or separate preburners. Examples of twin-shaft designs include the Rocketdyne RS-25, the JAXA LE-7, and Raptor. Relative to a single-shaft design, the...
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