In the Voronezh Center of the Rocket Engineering (enters the integrated rocket engine structure, headed by the Energomash Scientific and Production Association named after Academician V.P. Glushko State Corporation “Roskosmos”) successfully completed a cycle of fire tests of a regular chamber of the RD-0124 MS liquid rocket engine Created at the enterprise for use on the second stage of the promising domestic launch vehicle “Soyuz-5”.
tests confirmed the performance and characteristics of the chamber in the modes specified in the technical task. This allows the enterprise to move to the following steps: conducting tests of the engine chamber with a high-altitude nozzle under high-rise conditions, as well as the manufacture of finishing engines for ground fire testing.
RD-0124 ms rocket engine with a hub in an emptiness of 60 tons running on the fuel components “Liquid oxygen + naphthyl” and is intended for use in the second stage of the Soyuz-5 carrier rocket. It consists of two blocks located on a shared frame, and the composition of each of the blocks are two cameras. The engine provides swinging chambers in two planes, as well as work when it is turned off one of the blocks, including on low thrust mode.