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...rocket-powered antisubmarine torpedo that will home on its target electronically. Aerojet is responsible for developing the entire system, including guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: G.M. of the Rockets | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Orbits & Torpedoes. At Aerojet-General Corp. last week, the Air Force's huge Titan was only one of a score of missiles whose power comes from the nation's biggest rocketmaker. Aerojet's "solid-propellant guys" were hard at work on the Navy's 1,500-mile Lockheed Polaris as well as a flock of deadly birds named Hawk, Sparrow, Bullpup, Genie. Last week Aerojet blasted off on two new projects involving several exciting new technologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: G.M. of the Rockets | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Project Dyna-Soar, to shoot a manned rocket-powered aircraft into orbit around the earth and return. Martin and Boeing were named by the Defense Department to head two teams of companies that will present competing proposals for the Dyna-Soar contract. Aerojet was picked to help develop the power plant and the test facilities for the Boeing team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: G.M. of the Rockets | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...addition, a lightweight atomic reactor built by Aerojet went on display at Rome's International Congress on Electronics and Atomic Energy; another went into operation in Sicily, while still another is operating at the International Science Center at the Brussels Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: G.M. of the Rockets | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Profits & JATO. Aerojet's high-thrust activity has turned it from a mere nickel salute 16 years ago into the General Motors of U.S. rocketry. On 1957 sales of $161.9 million, it netted $3,800,000. This year's projection: sales of $180 million, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: G.M. of the Rockets | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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