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Liquid-fuel Rocket Engine

RD-181

  • Purpose: Engines for the first stage of the advanced Antares launch vehicle.
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Guaranteed service life (years): 11
  • Estimated production / delivery time (months): 14
  • Flight qualification of the product: Yes
  • Brief history of flight qualification: 6 launches (02.11.2019).
  • Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements: Yes
ParameterValue
Thrust, earth / void, tf196/212
Specific impulse, earth / void, s311 / 339
Pressure in the combustion chamber, kgf / cm2262.6
Weight, dry / dipped, kg2200/2330
Dimensions height / diameter, mm3680 / 2100
Development period2014-2015
Thrust vector control (2 channels) due to camera swing in two planes, o8
Thrust range,%105-30

Liquid rocket engine with afterburning of oxidizing gas. Fuel: oxygen + kerosene.

Remark

The engine has the widest range of thrust regulation from 105-30%.