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Liquid-fuel Rocket Engine

RD-171 M

  • Purpose: Engines for the first stage of the Zenit launch vehicle.
  • Year of release: 2004
  • Guaranteed service life (years): 8 renewable
  • Estimated production / delivery time (months): 22
  • Flight qualification of the product: Yes
  • Brief history of flight qualification: 30 launches since 2006 г. (01.09.2019).
  • Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements: Yes
ParameterValue
Thrust, earth / void, tf740 / 806
Specific impulse, earth / void, s309 / 337
Pressure in the combustion chamber, kgf / cm2250
Weight, dry / dipped, kg9300 / 10300
Dimensions height / diameter, mm4150 / 3565
Development period1992-1996 2003-2004
Thrust vector control by swinging cameras in the same plane, o6
Thrust range,%105-49

Liquid rocket engine with afterburning of oxidizing gas.
Fuel: oxygen + kerosene.
The most powerful liquid rocket engine in the world.
More than 1000 fire tests were carried out with a total operating time of more than 110,000 s. During fire tests, engine performance was demonstrated in a wide range of thrust modes from 105 to 49%.

Remark

The most powerful rocket engines in the world. Several copies of the engine were tested without removal from the stand 25 times.