Fwd: RD-180 - the first fire test

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: November 15, 2015 at 8:14:40 PM CST
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
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STORY. RD-180 - the first fire test

11.15.2015 8:56

19 years ago, on 15 November 1996, the NGO "Energomash" held its first firing test of the prototype engine RD-180 # 1A. Since then, the RD-180 has become the most sought-after in the international market of the Russian rocket engine. For 19 years, made 83 commodity RD-180.

In early 1996, a draft of the RD-180 NGOs "Energomash" was recognized as the winner of the competition for the development and production of first-stage engine for the upgraded "Atlas" of the American company Lockheed Martin Corporation («Lockheed Martin"). Creating a powerful engine of the first stage in the NPO "Energomash" was carried out in a short time.

Today RD-180 has established itself as one of the most reliable rockets in the world. Largely thanks to impeccable quality and unique characteristics of using the RD-180 US launches the most expensive payloads and companies Boeing («Boeing") and Sierra Nevada («Sierra Nevada") chose "Atlas" with the RD-180 as launch vehicle prospective manned spacecraft. Cooperation Roscosmos, NPO "Energomash" and American companies contracted deliveries of missile engines proved once again that the cosmos is international, and experts of our countries can do together to create unique products of the highest quality.

RD-180 is based on the legendary engine 11D520 (RD-170) designed for rocket "Energy". Encompasses all the best that has been created on the RD-170, RD-180, despite the differences in design while retaining the ability reusable and quality management system, implemented in the NPO "Energomash" in the production of the RD-180 and later spread all engines of the company to provide him with the reliability that has become legendary. Today, technology and experience gained in the development and operation of RD-170 and RD-180, used in the RD-190 engine developed for the new Russian carrier rocket family "Angara".

 

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