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July 04, 2014

Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes J-2X Testing
Sacramento CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed its final J-2X test series at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Over a period of three years, Aerojet Rocketdyne teams manufactured, assembled and tested four newly developed engine test articles that achieved an accumulated duration of nearly five hours firing time and demonstrated full power operation for twice its designed life service. Delivering 30 percent more thrust and five percent more performance than the J-2 Apollo-era engine, upon which it is ba ... read more

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