To meet evolving expendable launch requirements, Pratt & Whitney is offering the RD-0146, a cryogenic upper-stage engine designed and developed by the leading Russian cryogenic rocket engine developer, Chemiautomatics Design Bureau (CADB) of Voronezh, Russia. Designed to produce 22,000 pounds of thrust with a minimum vacuum ISP of 451 seconds, the RD-0146 employs the expander cycle, giving the engine greater operating range capability including multiple firings in space.
CADB has developed over 60 different rocket engine models during its 60-year history, including the RD-0120 engine that formed the core for the Russian Energia vehicle. The RD-0146 demonstration phase is now underway with engine certification expected in 2004.
Thrust: 22,000 lb
Weight: 534 lb
Specific impulse, vacuum (minimum): 451 sec
Cycle: Full Expander
Propellants: LH2/LOX
Mixture Ratio: 6.0
Restarts: Multiple
Pratt & Whitney will make the necessary modifications and certify the engine for any non-Russian (CIS) vehicle application. Production engines will be delivered and supported by Pratt & Whitney.
Books:
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Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space
Shuttle by Bart Hendrickx
from
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Amazon.ca,
Walmart.com
- Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Edition by George P. Sutton (Author), Oscar Biblarz (Author)
- Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket
Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol 147
from Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
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Rocket Exhaust Plume Phenomenology
by
Frederick S. Simmons
from
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
- Amateur Rocket Motor
Construction: A Complete Guide To The Construction Of Homemade Solid Fuel Rocket
Motors
from
Amazon.com
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