Energomash sent engine RD-171MV to assemble first stage of Soyuz-5 rocket

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Specialists of the Scientific and Production Association “Energomash” named after Academician V.P. Glushko (Khimki, is part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”) in accordance with the contractual obligations sent the RC-171MV rocket engine to the Progress Rocket and Space Center (Samara, enters Roscosmos), where it did on October 25, 2021 For assembly as part of the first stage of the prospective carrier missile “Soyuz-5”.

“This engine has already passed fire tests in the NGO Energomash scientific test complex, which confirmed the quality of the design and technological solutions of our engineers. And now a number of tests will be held in the first stage of the carrier rocket. Enterprise, releasing this technologically complex engine, Once again, the high professional level of specialists of production and testing units was confirmed, “Igor Arbuzov, General Director of NGO Energomash, commented on the event.

RD-171MV is the most powerful liquid rocket engine designed, manufactured and tested in NGO Energomash. In the engine, kerosene and oxygen are used as fuel components.

A promising two-stage medium-class rocket “Soyuz-5” is developed in order to ensure the launches of automatic spacecraft on solar-synchronous, high-elliptical, geophech and geostationary orbits, including using an accelerated block, as well as starting transport ships.

/Media reports.

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