Rocket Shop℠ Defense Advanced Programs
Ensuring the Nation's Safety with Next Generation Defense Products
Aerojet Rocketdyne's Rocket Shop℠ is the defense innovation arm of the company, specifically designed and staffed to identify unique defense customer solutions and rapidly mature those products from concept to demonstration. The group utilizes a highly-specialized workforce and state-of-the-art processes such as rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing to quickly and affordably develop new products focused on increasing national security.
Key Features
Differentiating Technologies for the Warfighter
- Leader in propulsion technologies: ramjet, scramjet, rotating detonation, boosters, warheads, and electric power
- Superior capability achieved through advanced solid and liquid propellants, materials and innovative design
- Affordability and faster time-to-market achieved through additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping
Innovative Solutions for National Defense
- Large and small rocket motors for next generation Minuteman Ground Based Strategic Deterrent and tactical systems
- Supersonic and hypersonic propulsion for missiles and aircraft
- Next generation missile defense against emerging threats
- Advanced armaments and specialty warheads enabling selectable effects
- Advanced concepts for rotating detonation engines, torpedo propulsion, and air/land/sea/undersea defense
Press Releases
- Feb. 22, 2023 - Aerojet Rocketdyne's Advanced Scramjet Engine Powers Hypersonic Vehicle Flight in Partnership with DARPA, AFRL, Lockheed Martin
- Oct. 6, 2022 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Next Generation Large Solid Rocket Motor, Demonstrates Production Maturity of Modern Facilities
- Aug. 16, 2022 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Opens Industry's First SCEPS Manufacturing Facility for Next Generation Torpedo Propulsion
- May 5, 2022 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Selected by Lockheed Martin to Power DARPA OpFires Missile
- April 6, 2022 - Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Advanced Scramjet Engine Powers Successful Hypersonic Vehicle Flight
- Feb. 8, 2022 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Demonstrates Groundbreaking Propulsion for Next Generation Torpedoes
- Dec. 15, 2020 - Another Aerojet Rocketdyne Hypersonic Engine Makes History
- July 21, 2020 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Achieves Another Milestone on DARPA OpFires Program
- May 12, 2020 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Advanced Large Solid Rocket Motor
- Feb. 24, 2020 - Aerojet Rocketdyne to Develop Advanced Propulsion System for U.S. Navy’s Advanced Lightweight Torpedo
- Feb. 10, 2020 - DARPA Selects Aerojet Rocketdyne to Develop Propulsion Technology for the Hypersonic Defense Program Glide Breaker
- Dec. 3, 2019 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Achieves Milestone on DARPA OpFires Program, Company successfully completes tests of subscale OpFires propulsion system
- Oct. 2, 2019 - Missile Defense Agency Selects Aerojet Rocketdyne to Mature Hypersonic Defense Component Technology
- Sept. 16, 2019 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Selected for Northrop Grumman's Nationwide GBSD Team
- Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Awarded DARPA Contract to Design Advanced OpFires Propulsion System
- Oct. 8, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Hypersonic DMRJ Engine
- Aug. 6, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Boosters Complete Simulated Air-Launch Tests
- June 12, 2018 - Office of Naval Research Awards Aerojet Rocketdyne Contract to Develop Advanced Torpedo Propulsion System
- May 7, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes Hot Fire Testing on Propulsion System for MDA’s Redesigned Kill Vehicle
- Dec. 7, 2017 - Aerojet Rocketdyne Achieves Significant Air Force Demonstration and Validation Milestone with Successful Hot-Fire Test
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