Denver Business Journal — Rocket company United Launch Alliance will stick with an Aerojet Rocketdyne engine for the upper stage of ULA’s new Vulcan rocket.
Centennial-based ULA announced Friday that the Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 engine, which has powered the company’s rocket upper stages for years, will remain the upper-stage engine of choice after Vulcan starts flying in 2020.
ULA reach a long-term agreement with Sacramento, California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) to supply RL10s “for the next decade” and develop a new variation of the RL-10 for ULA to use as well, the company said.
“ULA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have a long and successful history together that began with the first flight of our Atlas and Delta rockets in the 1960s,” said Tory Bruno, ULA president and CEO, in a written statement. “We could not be more pleased to have selected the proven and reliable RL10 to power our Vulcan Centaur upper stage.”
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