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 ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is considering using some of the $3.1 billion it is requesting for heavy-lift and in-space propulsion research to develop a U.S. counterpart to the Russian-built RD-180 engine ...

A proposed U.S. rocket engine could replace the ... replacement to the Russian-made RD-180, used as a first-stage engine on the Atlas V in ... deliveries of the RD-180 engine continue ...

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) ...

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.The deliveries are the latest shipments ...

"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 ...

RD-180 engines are used on the first stages of US Atlas space launch vehicles and have never ... the United States will continue developing alternatives to RD-180 engines. Super-heavy carrier rocket.

Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos expects 30 RD-180 and 60 RD-181 engines to be sold abroad ...

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This highly flamable rocket fuel is mixed with liquid oxygen in the RD-180 engine to create 860,000 lbf of thrust to power craft like the Atlas V. ... this rocket stage is three-meters in diameter.