Aerojet Rocketdyne
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Aerojet Rocketdyne was a company, and later a subsidiary of American defense company L3Harris, that manufactured rocket, hypersonic, and electric propulsive systems for space, defense, civil and comme
Shuttle Main Engine Test Firing
Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the Saturn V first stage.
RS-25 engines
RS-25
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The RS-25, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine, is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle and is used on the Space Launch System.
Aerojet Rocketdyne
…Rocketdyne would become a major supplier for NASA, producing the Rocketdyne F-1 engine for the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo Space Program as well as the RS-25 engine of the Space Shuttle program and its successor the Space Launch System (SLS) program. Aerojet Rocketdyne engines have contributed to every…
The large silver pipe across the top carries fuel from the low-pressure fuel turbopump (not visible) to the high-pressure fuel turbopump (HPFTP, silver drum at lower left). The top of the HPFTP is bolted to part of the hot gas manifold (black, with brown diagonal pipe), and above that is the fuel pre-burner (also black, with brown pipe entering at right).
The nozzles of Space Shuttle Columbia's three RS-25s following the landing of STS-93. The bright spot in engine 3's nozzle (bottom right) is from damage that occurred during liftoff.
A Block II RS-25D main engine controller