# Aerojet General Missile & Rocket Engines Film Theodore Von Karman 74522

This company report from Aerojet General Corporation shows it in its prime as a defense and industrial contractor that also supported the U.S. space program. The Azusa plant where the company started is shown, along with the Nerva Nuclear Rocket Engine program, and various aspects of the company's production from ablative coatings to astrionics, oceanics and torpedo divisions, an anti-cavitation device known as a Hydrocket, the Ordnance Division in Downey that developed the Nike-Hercules ground to air missile and Thor Able system, the Chino Hills Facility with its special testing laboratories for metallurgic examination and creation of new alloys, and more. The aeronautic division is shown at 20 minutes developing the SD-2 multipurpose surveillance drone for the Army. (The Aerojet SD-2 Overseer was an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Aerojet General in the late 1950s for use by the United States Army. Built in limited numbers, it never saw operational service.) At the 21 minute mark, Polaris Rocket motors are built as well as Minuteman motors and Hawk missile motors are shown being assembled. Parcel sorters and materials handling equipment are also shown at the 22 minute mark, in use with the Postal Service. Rocket test stands including the Saturn V rest stands are shown. The first test stand for nuclear rocket engines is also shown in model form, at the 23 minute mark. Aerojet's plants in Sacramento, the largest rocket engine facilities in the world, are shown at the…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/74522ReportFromAerojet)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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