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Aerojet, reports that its AJ26 engine successfully completed ahot-fire test yesterday at NASA's Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital), Aerojet and NASA monitoredthe full-duration test in support of the Antares rocket program.This is the eighth AJ26 engine to be tested at Stennis. "This test demonstrates our 70-year legacy of propulsionperformance," said Executive Director of Space and Launch Systems,Pete Cova. "This is what we come to work for every day." Following review of the test data, the AJ26 will be shipped toWallops Flight Facility for integration with Orbital's Antaresrocket. Aerojet's AJ26 engine is an oxidizer-rich, staged-combustionLO2/Kerosene engine that achieves very high performance in alightweight compact package. Based on the NK-33 engine originallydesigned and produced in Russia for the Russian N1 lunar launchvehicle, the liquid-fuel AJ26 will provide boost for the firststage of the Antares rocket. Aerojet originally purchased approximately 40 NK-33 engines in themid-1990s and, under contract with Orbital, the company hasmodified the engines specifically for its Antares rocket. Throughout the years, more than 200 NK-33 engines were built and575 engine tests conducted, totaling more than 100,000 seconds oftest time. Aerojet has been developing design modifications to theNK-33 since that time to ensure that the AJ26 is suitable forcommercial launchers. In addition to the AJ26 certification testing, each AJ26 engine tobe used on Antares rocket will come through the Stennis facilityfor pre-launch acceptance testing prior to being integrated withthe rocket. Aerojet is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leaderprincipally serving the missile and space propulsion, defense andarmaments markets. GenCorp is a leading technology-basedmanufacturer of aerospace and defense products and systems with areal estate segment that includes activities related to theentitlement, sale, and leasing of the company's excess real estateassets. The Antares rocket vehicle is being developed to boost payloadsinto a variety of low-Earth and geosynchronous transfer orbits andto Earth escape trajectories. Antares incorporates proventechnologies from Orbital's Pegasus, Taurus and Minotaur rockets,and is supported by a "best-in-class" network of suppliers from theU.S. and around the world. The Antares rocket will also be available to civil government andU.S. military customers for dedicated launch services formedium-class scientific and national security satellites. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as PP Preform Mould , China HDPE Bottle Mould for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits PET Preform Mould.
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