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Russia: a future for the RD-180 rocket engines

It could be used for a new Russian super-heavy launcher

The Russian RD-180 engine that is used on the Atlas V rockets at least until 2020, having been excluded from US sanctions on Russia due to the impossibility of developing an engine with similar capacity in a short period, could be mounted in the the near future also on the Russian super-heavy launcher and the modernized Soyuz-2. To make it known was talking to "Tass" the CEO of the motor company Energomash...

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Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, 11/09/2018 16:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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