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Space News by Sandra Erwin — March 12, 2020

The company expects the 17,000 square-foot facility to open for business later this spring.

WASHINGTON — Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it has installed a steel casting bell at its new facility in Camden, Arkansas, where it will develop and produce large solid rocket motors.

The company said March 12 it expects the 17,000 square-foot facility to open for business later this spring. Aerojet Rocketdyne broke ground in spring 2019 and estimates the plant cost more than $15 million to build.

Aerojet Rocketdyne President and CEO Eileen Drake called the installation of the casting bell a “major milestone” in the company’s efforts to remain a viable supplier of large solid rocket motors for national security programs such as the Air Force’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program and the Missile Defense Agency’s Next Generation Interceptor program.

The company’s solid rocket business suffered a major blow in 2015 when United Launch Alliance picked Orbital ATK (acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2017) as its exclusive supplier of solid boosters for the Atlas 5 rocket and for Vulcan, its next-generation launch vehicle.

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