Proton-PM Company (included in the integrated NGO structure Energomash State Corporation “Roskosmos”) set the customer NGO Energomash four commodity turbochargeable engine of the RD-191 engine. One of them at the end of November 2021 successfully passed fire tests in the composition of the product, defending the party.
The entire contract provides for the manufacture of six sets of turbocharging units and other engine units intended for flight tests of the Angara carrier missile from the Eastern cosmodrome in the Amur region.
Igor Arbuzov, General Director of NGO Energomash: “NGO Energomash is not only by the customer, but also by the developer of the RD-191 engine. Now the company has active work on creating its modernized version of RD-191m. The development of design documentation has been completed. Completely changed cooperation . Almost everything that previously purchased outside the integrated rocket engine construction structure is now manufactured at the holding enterprises.
In Perm, the construction of a modern plant for the production of this engine is practically completed, materials for the manufacture of RD-191m are purchased. The first copy is planned to be made in mid-2022 And in the same year on the site in Khimki, proceed to its tests. “
Recall that Proton-PM is mounted as a serial engine manufacturer for the Angara Space Rocket Complex. The company has mastered the release of the defining components of the RD-191, which make up about 40% of the time consumption of its production. In addition to the turbochargeable unit, these are booster pumping units of the oxidizing agent and fuel, a pipeline with an ejector, a filter and an oxidant valve, as well as part of the specialormal. This year also mastered the manufacture of thermal protection and engine thermal insulation.