Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

Type	Division
Industry	Aerospace
Predecessor	Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion Rocketdyne
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Canoga Park, California, United States
Products	Rocket engines
Owner(s)	United Technologies Corporation
Parent	Pratt & Whitney
Website	http://www.pw.utc.com/products/pwr/pwr.asp

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) is a United States company that designs and produces rocket engines that use liquid propellants. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, headquartered in Canoga Park, California, is a division of Pratt & Whitney, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation.^[1] It has additional operations in West Palm Beach, Florida; Huntsville, Alabama; the Kennedy Space Center, Florida; and the Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne was formed in 2005 when Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion and Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power were merged following the latter's acquisition from Boeing.

Contents 1 Products 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

Products

Pratt & Whitney

• RL10 (LH2/LOX) An American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Historic Landmark developed by Pratt & Whitney. Used on the Saturn I, the upper stage of the Delta IV, the Centaur upper stage for the Atlas V and Titan rockets and on the vertical-landing McDonnell Douglas DC-X "Delta Clipper". It was intended serve as the main propulsion engine for the Altair lunar lander.

• RS-68 (LH2/LOX) First stage engine for the Delta IV.

• RS-25 (LH2/LOX) Space Shuttle main engine.

• SJ61 (JP-7/ingested air) A dual-mode ramjet/scramjet engine flown on the Boeing X-51 hypersonic demonstration vehicle.

References

See also

• Commercial Spaceflight Federation

External links

• Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne company website
• Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Supplier Information
• Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Supplier

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