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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced that its propulsion components assisted with today's launch and payload insertion of the U.S. Air Force's fourth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) spacecraft. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120112/SF34677LOGO) Aerojet's 12 reaction control thrusters provided roll, pitch and yaw control during ascent of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Delta IV upper stage. The WGS satellite...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that its hydrazine thrusters powered a critical in-flight maneuver for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. This important maneuver aligned the spacecraft's trajectory with its landing target. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120112/SF34677LOGO) On Jan. 11, 2012, eight small monopropellant hydrazine thrusters fired for nearly three hours in order to position...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that its Sacramento, Calif. headquarters has once again achieved one million man hours without a lost-time injury. The Sacramento site reached the milestone on Nov. 26. "We are extremely proud of this accomplishment by our Sacramento facility," said Sacramento Vice President of Environmental, Health & Safety, Chris Conley. "This milestone...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that Carlton Brewer has been appointed as site executive for its Huntsville, Alabama location. Carlton has worked in the aerospace and defense sector over the past 24 years in varying levels of responsibility within the Department of Defense weapons system program management. He joined the growing Aerojet Huntsville office in November 2010 working in Business Development and now...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced that its new scalable effects warhead was successfully demonstrated on Lockheed Martin's Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Plus (GMLRS+) rocket today during a flight test at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This new warhead provides the user the ability to select a range of detonation yields depending on the target. The warhead was set to low-yield output prior to the...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that it has successfully completed a major milestone in the development of a ground demonstrator for the Next Generation Engine (NGE) program. Aerojet, along with its partner Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (FTT), recently completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the turbopump assembly before an Independent Review Team comprised of third party turbomachinery...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, helped launch a new era of planetary exploration by providing propulsion for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission that lifted off today on a scientific endeavor to the red planet. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111126/SF12314) Four Aerojet AJ60 Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) igniting at lift-off increased the launch thrust of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket by more than 1.5...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and NASA, has successfully completed vibration, shock and hot fire design verification testing on its first MR-104G monopropellant rocket engine planned for use on NASA's Orion spacecraft. Twelve 160-lbf thrust MR-104G engines, arranged in four single-engine pods and four dual-engine pods, provide the full complement of primary and redundant...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that it has been competitively selected by Raytheon Missile Systems to complete the development of the Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS) for the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA program, an advanced version of the SM-3 now in development. The development contract will extend through 2016 and will be followed by a planned production program. The SM-3 Block IIA...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GenCorp Inc. ("GenCorp" or the "Company") (NYSE: GY) today announced that it entered into an amended and restated $200 million credit facility. The new credit facility amends and restates the Company's prior credit agreement and, (i) extends the maturity date to November 18, 2016 (which date may be accelerated in certain cases); and (ii) replaces the existing revolving credit facility and credit-linked facility with a revolving credit...