General Director of the Scientific and Production Association (NGO) “Energomash” Igor Watermelov in an interview with RIA Novosti spoke about the head of Spacex Ilona Mask.
The head called the American a competitor to whom it believes “with respect.”
“In fact, he is a good stimulus not only for us, but also for the American market. With it, he went a new turn of commercial use of reparency. And the result of a serious breakthrough was obvious,” the general director of the enterprise producing RD-180 rocket engines said. .
Watermelons added that “no special super innovative solutions” in Spacex engines are not.
Head of NGO “Energomash” refused to compare the Russian engine RD-0169 and American Raptor and BE-4. “Time will show who will create a more advanced design,” said watermelons.
In December 2020, the DRIVE publication publishing was stated that the Spacex Starship Spaceship prototype test could be evidence of a revolution in modern cosmonautics. Then during the test flight, the prototype of the STARSHIP spacecraft of the eighth version (SN8) rose to a height of 12 kilometers, he landed, after which he exploded. In the air, the product was 6 minutes 40 seconds.