Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Extreme Engineering
Overview
For more than half a century, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has designed, tested and built some of the world’s most advanced propulsion and energy systems. But behind the successful designs, manufacturing processes and hardware are our engineers who are proven leaders in solving difficult problems. They have the training, experience and tools to deliver high-performance and low-risk solutions that perform in the most extreme conditions on Earth and in space. Their brain power and passion for using their Extreme Engineering expertise can help you solve your toughest engineering problems. Contact us for more information.
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Extreme Engineering Competency Areas
PWR has demonstrated skill and experience solving complex thermal challenges. Think combustion chamber gases at 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit a fraction of an inch away from liquid hydrogen fuel at -423 degrees Fahrenheit.
PWR has built more than 80 different rocket engine turbopumps with proven performance. Not much larger than an automobile engine, one of our turbopumps could drain an Olympic-size swimming pool in about a minute.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has designed electrical and electronic systems operate in extreme environments for the propulsion, power, aerospace, defense and energy markets.
PWR has more than 50 years of experience in pushing metallic alloy systems to their limits, joining super alloys and developing advanced composites with low density, high specific strength and high temperature strength.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s in-depth experience with design using a hierarchy of modeling methods, test and analysis of combustion systems has been applied to many propulsion and energy systems.
The physics of failure are often unintended and not widely understood. Our engineers have a long history of acclimating to extreme physics, and successfully analyzing failure scenarios going beyond basic design and analysis techniques.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
A power, propulsion and optimization company.
