Kratos Successfully Static Test Fires the Zeus 1 Solid Propellant Rocket Motor at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Camden, Arkansas
21 Junho 2023 - 4:00AM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a
Technology Company in the Defense, National Security and Global
Markets, announced today that its Space & Missile Defense
Systems Business Unit (SMDS), a part of Kratos’ Defense &
Rocket Systems Division (KDRS), successfully conducted the first
static test firing of the Zeus 1 solid rocket motor (SRM) at
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Camden, Arkansas facility. Kratos, responding
to the need for new affordable commercial SRMs to operate as launch
vehicle stages for Kratos’ research, hypersonic, ballistic missile
target, and “other” vehicles, determined Zeus 1 and 2 motor
requirements and standards, and through internal investments,
funded the development of the Zeus SRM designs. The family of Zeus
SRMs are designed and manufactured by Kratos’ key merchant supplier
partner Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Prior to firing, the Kratos Zeus 1 motor was
cooled to the lowest planned operating temperature to evaluate
motor performance under the most stressing ignition conditions. The
Kratos Zeus 1 motor performed nominally throughout the test and
preliminary hardware and data inspection confirms the robustness of
the motor design and its applicability for multiple customer
applications. The Kratos Zeus 1 performance provides substantial
improvement over similar legacy and heritage SRMs within the same
relevant form factor, allowing existing payload designs and launch
infrastructure to remain unchanged, while allowing rapid
integration of new, technology leading systems and payloads,
including those currently under development by Kratos. These key
and other attributes will provide Kratos’ customers opportunities
to fly more often, faster and farther, using fewer stages, at a
substantially reduced cost.
The Kratos Zeus 1 is the first of two
high-performance 32.5-inch diameter solid rocket motors internally
developed and funded under the Kratos Zeus Program, with the larger
Zeus 2 motor scheduled for static test later this year. The Kratos
Zeus motors, designed with versatility and affordability in mind,
complement Kratos’ investments in the Erinyes hypersonic “flyer”
test vehicle that is expected to debut early next year, and Kratos’
follow-on Dark Fury hypersonic system, which nature and performance
characteristics are highly confidential. These Kratos investments
in the hypersonic and “other” areas create a versatile family of
test, evaluation and “other” products that offer complete systems,
SRMs, and flyers. Once complete, Kratos, with the Zeus SRMs, and
the Erinyes, Dark Fury, and other Kratos “Flyers”, will be one of
the only companies with both the Rocket System and “Flyer” systems
under one entity, providing unmatched innovation, disruptive
capabilities, mission responsiveness and affordability to the
customer.
Dave Carter, President of KDRS, said, “I could
not be more proud of our SMDS team and partner, Aerojet Rocketdyne,
with this most recent example of our industry leading capability to
rapidly design, develop, demonstrate, and bring to market
affordable, relevant rocket systems, far ahead of competition.
Kratos and our key rocket motor merchant supplier partner, Aerojet
Rocketdyne, have demonstrated once again the value of the agile,
middle tier technology and product companies for our country’s
National Security requirements and system affordability.”
Eric DeMarco, President & CEO of Kratos
Defense & Security Solutions, said, “Kratos internally funded
the development of the Zeus motors to enable rapid and affordable
hypersonic testing and capabilities and to be 'first to market'
with a highly relevant system, including as based on communications
with the customer community. At Kratos, affordability is a
technology and better is the enemy of good enough, and we continue
to innovate using proven, existing, leading technology, systems,
and Kratos’ intellectual property to rapidly bring relevant
products to market to address the United States and our Allies'
National Security.”
About Kratos Defense & Security
SolutionsKratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
(NASDAQ: KTOS) is a technology company that develops and fields
transformative, affordable systems, products, and solutions for
United States National Security, our allies, and global commercial
enterprises. At Kratos, Affordability is a Technology, and Kratos
is changing the way breakthrough technology is rapidly brought to
market – at a low cost – with actual products, systems, and
technologies rather than slide decks or renderings. Through proven
commercial and venture capital-backed approaches, including
proactive, internally funded research and streamlined development
processes, Kratos is focused on being First to Market with our
solutions well in advance of the competition. Kratos is the
recognized Technology Disruptor in our core market areas, including
Space and Satellite Communications, Cyber Security and Warfare,
Unmanned Systems, Rocket and Hypersonic Systems, Next-Generation
Jet Engines and Propulsion Systems, Microwave Electronics, C5ISR,
and Virtual and Augmented Reality Training Systems. For more
information go to www.KratosDefense.com.
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business of Kratos in general, see the risk disclosures in the
Annual Report on Form 10-K of Kratos for the year ended December
27, 2022, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other
filings made with the SEC by Kratos.
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