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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a global engineering leader, and designs and produces some of the world's most sophisticated hardware - including rockets. For more than 55 years, we have satisfied customers in many industries due to our unequaled expertise in most of the major high-value engineering and manufacturing disciplines. Please explore this site to see how our unique expertise and capabilities can be used to solve your technical problem. See who we are and what our "rocket scientists" can do for you.

Some of the key areas for which Rocketdyne is especially well-known are featured below:

Rocketdyne designed and built the Space Station Power System

Systems Engineering / Systems Integration

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has world-class expertise in Systems Engineering. From designing and managing the Space Station Power System (100% uptime for 5 million + hours and counting) to determining the required redundancies to ensure 100% power uptime for an offshore oil rig, our proven skills and processes ensure a successful solution to your complex system needs. Whether designing a new system or "fixing" a broken one, we can help make your project a success. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, CA was one of the first 10 companies in the world to be assessed at CMMI Level V in all 4 Bodies of Knowledge.

Root Cause Failure Analysis / Failure Investigation

As they say, Rocket Science isn’t easy. Building the Space Station Power System wasn’t easy either. To be successful in these critical, "can't fail" programs, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has had to develop a thorough, world-class approach to Failure Investigation.

Our disciplined approach takes into account the system in which the failing component or functionality resides. We consider the entire system, and the “physics” of what may have contributed to a given failure. This approach has been used in nationally-visible incidents, and across industries including consumer products and offshore drilling and exploration. Our team works closely with your company to: gather relevant information; understand the pedigree of requirements, components and systems; assess intended use as well as possible “out-of-family” variations. We conduct aerospace-level analyses and can define failure replication test programs. Statistically rigorous correlations of causes and effects are generated routinely. Ultimately, our objective view and systems-based techniques provide a unique investigation outcome that can help your company improve product quality and reduce future failure rates.

Hydrogen Engineering

Are you in the Hydrogen field? Need an expert on your side who has worked with Hydrogen for decades? As a pioneer in liquid propulsion - using both hydrogen and oxygen as propellants - Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has more than 50 years of knowledge and capabilities of working with Hydrogen. From Hydrogen Properties predictions to Hydrogen Materials compatibility, we can help you harness the power of Hydrogen for your project.

In addition to our Hydrogen consulting and testing expertise, PWR is developing a Compact Reformer for Industrial Hydrogen.