GKN AEROSPACE WINS CONTRACT FROM ARIANEGROUP FOR GROUND-BREAKING ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED ROCKET ENGINE TURBINES

GKN Aerospace will develop and manufacture two full-scale turbines for the Prometheus* low-cost re-usable rocket engine demonstrator on liquid oxygen and methane propellants. The turbines will generate power for the methane fuel system, with the first turbine to be delivered at the end of 2019. Manufacturing will take place in cooperation with partners and at GKN Aerospace’s highly automated engine systems centre of excellence in Trollhättan, Sweden.