PWR Plans Next-Gen Engine Test Rig

LOS ANGELES – Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) is assembling parts for an RLXX demonstrator rig that it hopes will be a pathfinder for a next-generation U.S. upper-stage engine by around 2017.

Progress on the rig comes as the U.S. Air Force studies requirements for a next-generation engine (NGE) and as ...