Propulsion and components
Aerojet Rocketdyne
The propulsion company, headquartered in Palm Bay in its later years, acquired by L3Harris for $4.7 billion including net debt in a transaction signed 18 December 2022 and completed 28 July 2023, and separated in January 2026 [LHXAJ][LHXSEC][WAJRD][SNRD].
- Entity type
- company
- Kind
- company
- Lane
- Propulsion and components
- Place
- Palm Bay, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 2013
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2013 · 2013: Aerojet Rocketdyne operates site West Palm Beach rocket engine plant (2013 to 2023)
- Role
- propulsion manufacturer
- Status as of the cutoff
- Historic entity. Acquired by L3Harris in 2023 and separated in January 2026 into Rocketdyne and L3Harris Missile Solutions.
- Entity status
- historic or successor
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 5
- Betweenness
- 0.0554 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [LHXAJ] [LHXSEC] [WAJRD] [SNRD]
Connections
Ownership and corporate lineage
- acquired ←L3Harris Technologiesacquisition signed 18 December 2022 at $58 per share, $4.7 billion including net debt, completed 28 July 2023 [LHXAJ] [LHXSEC]2023
- separated into →L3Harris Missile Solutionsthe missile business stays with L3Harris as L3Harris Missile Solutions [SNRD] [WAJRD]2026
- spun off as →Rocketdynethe space propulsion, power and electronics business separates as a standalone company [SNRD]2026
Property, facility and development
- operates site →West Palm Beach rocket engine plantthe propulsion company holds the West Palm Beach plant [LHXSEC]2013 to 2023
Person role
- spoke for ←2023