Two defense firms have successfully conducted solid rocket motor tests for the U.S. Army’s Next-Generation Short-Range ...

Adranos is best known for its creation of ALITEC, an aluminum-lithium alloy fuel for solid rocket motors that it claims can produce up to a 40% range increase. (Anduril) WASHINGTON — Defense ...

The move involves twin solid rocket motors, which form most of the white solid rocket boosters. The solid rocket boosters produced more than 80% of the lift during takeoff. The rocket motors will ...

Donated by Northrup Grumman, the solid rocket motors are each the size of a Boeing 757 fuselage and weigh 104,000 pounds. They had to be carefully moved from a horizontal to vertical position by ...

Adranos performed static test fires of its solid rocket motors in 2021 in coastal Mississippi. Credit: Adranos WASHINGTON — Defense contractor Anduril Industries acquired Adranos, a manufacturer ...

Increasing demand for solid rocket motors in the defense sector Solid rocket motors are used in launch vehicles to carry payloads into space efficiently in the space sector. They provide the ...

(Aerojet Rocketdyne) As part of that quest, Aerojet broke ground earlier this year to build four new solid rocket motor production facilities at its campus in Camden, Arkansas. Defense News sat ...

Rocket compensated, as designed. Nominal trajectory. Bullseye (orbit) insertion." The Vulcan's two Blue Origin-built BE-4 engines and twin solid rocket boosters, or SRBs, thundered to life at 7:25 ...

The company said the building that was destroyed was used to "produce an ingredient in solid rocket motor propellant and is one of many in our production network." They added that no solid rocket ...