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Liquid-fuel Rocket Engine

RD-120MS

  • Purpose: For the upper stages of promising Russian and foreign launch vehicles.
  • Year of release: 2022
  • Flight qualification of the product: No
  • Brief history of flight qualification: The engine prototype was used at the 2nd stage of the Zenit launch vehicle.
  • Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements: Yes
ParameterValue
Thrust, earth / void, tf- / 93
Specific impulse, earth / void, s- / 351
Pressure in the combustion chamber, kgf / cm2181,6
Weight, dry / dipped, kg1450/1610
Dimensions height / diameter, mm4714/2600
Development periodBasic - since 1976, forced - 2001-2003 modification - 2019-2022
Thrust vector control (2 channels) due to camera swing in two planes, o4
Thrust range,%100-78

Modification of the RD120 liquid rocket engine with afterburning of oxidizing gas for the upper stages.
Fuel: oxygen + kerosene.
A number of new technologies are widely used in engine design.

Remark

The basic engine RD-120 was developed in 1976-1985. The first launch of the Zenit launch vehicle with the RD-120 engine was performed on April 13, 1985. The modernized RD-120 engine: thrust up to 93 tf is boosted. The first launch of the Zenit launch vehicle with the boosted RD-120 engine under the Sea Launch program was completed on February 28, 2005. A total of 295 engines were manufactured, 588 bench fire tests were conducted with an operating time of 141608 s.