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Now a division of L3Harris Technologies, Aerojet Rocketdyne has manufactured rocket propulsion systems for launch vehicles, spacecraft, and missile defense since 1942.
ACTIVEAerojet Rocketdyne, acquired by L3Harris Technologies in July 2023, makes solid rocket motors for missile programs such as PAC-3, THAAD, Tomahawk and Standard Missile. Since January 2026 it is part of L3Harris's Missile Solutions segment; its space propulsion and power business (including the RL10 engine) was sold to AE Industrial in August 2026 and now operates as Rocketdyne.
Aerojet Rocketdyne, acquired by L3Harris Technologies in July 2023, makes solid rocket motors for missile programs such as PAC-3, THAAD, Tomahawk and Standard Missile. Since January 2026 it is part of L3Harris's Missile Solutions segment; its space propulsion and power business (including the RL10 engine) was sold to AE Industrial in August 2026 and now operates as Rocketdyne.
Not scored The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
A subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies, which acquired it in 2023. L3Harris is ranked, so ranking Aerojet Rocketdyne separately would count the same business twice.
Inputs measured 2026-10-20 (UTC) · methodology v6 · Who is scored, and why
Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Parent, Legal name
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No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Contracts, suppliers, launches and schedule for each program, every fact sourced:
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Compiled Oct 20, 2026 from 3 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
13 awards, $2.71B obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded May 2, 2002 to Jul 12, 2024; most from NASA (11 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Jul 12, 2024
Latest space award
$718K from NASA
CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE RESEARCH REPORTS ON STUDIES ABOUT HOW TO MAKE MARS ASCENT VEHICLE LIGHTER AND MORE EFFICIENT.
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Jul 12, 2024
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
11 space awards, $2.61B obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Jul 12, 2024
Department of Energy
2 space awards, $102.4M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Jun 3, 2014
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 20). Aerojet Rocketdyne: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/aerojet-rocketdyne
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Aerojet Rocketdyne: Company dossier." Data as of October 20, 2026. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/aerojet-rocketdyne.
BibTeX
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author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Aerojet Rocketdyne}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
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url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/aerojet-rocketdyne},
urldate = {2026-10-20},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-20; each fact links its primary source}
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