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WASHINGTON — L3Harris Technologies said Jan. 5 it will sell a majority stake in its space propulsion business to private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, marking the first major restructuring of ...

For over a century, rocket propulsion has followed a simple principle; burn fuel, expel it backward, and Newton's third law pushes you forward. Since Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first formulated the rocket ...

L3Harris will retain a minority investment interest and continue to act as a strategic partner to the business. AE Industrial plans to restore and use the "Rocketdyne" name for the acquired business ...

Rocket Lab last month said it shipped the18-ft.-dia. fairing, which opens and closes like a clamshell, to Neutron’s launch site at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility ...

Northrop Grumman test-fired a solid rocket motor called SMASH!22 Dec. 4 as part of its SMART Demo development program. Credit: Northrop Grumman WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman tested a solid rocket ...

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If you are a student of space history or tracked the space industry before billionaires and venture capital changed it forever, you probably know the name Rocketdyne. A half-century ago, Rocketdyne ...