The Air Force has accepted the requirement to find an alternative to the RD-180 for the Atlas V. In 2016, it awarded contracts to four companies to develop new first stage rocket engines: Aerojet ...

The rocket’s liquid RD-180 engine, built by NPO Energomash, burns a mixture of kerosene and liquid oxygen and is capable of producing 860,000 pounds of thrust at sea level.

Four RD-180 rocket engines, which power the main stage of the U.S. Atlas 5 rocket, have been delivered from Russia to United Launch Alliance (ULA) of Denver.

A proposed U.S. rocket engine similar to the iconic Apollo-era F-1 could replace the Russian technology found on many American military boosters, according to the firms behind its design. What's ...

These are the 15 most powerful rocket engines of all time, each ordered by their thrust at sea level. Because, it turns out that the thrust you get in the vacuum of space is different to that on ...

NASA engineers test a Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine on Nov. 4, 1998, at the Marshall Space Flight Center's Advanced Engine Test Facility (NASA via U.S. Defense Department) ...

RD-180 engines are used on the first stages of US Atlas space launch vehicles and have never been mounted on domestic rockets ...

Russia's Energomash rocket engine manufacturer, which is part of state space corporation Roscosmos, has started to adapt RD-180 engines, which have been in use for US Atlas carrier rockets, and ...

РД-180 №123Т With a landmark launch, the Pentagon is finally free of Russian rocket engines It's been a decade-long effort to end the US military's reliance on the RD-180 engine.

The agreement between Moscow and Washington stipulating the delivery of 101 RD-180 rocket engines to the United States and estimated at about $1 billion was signed in 1997.

"The RD-180 engine, which has unique flight statistics, will be used in the first stage of the Soyuz-6 rocket, which can replace the Soyuz-2 medium-class launch vehicle in the future, as well as ...