Russian Rocket Engines

The Russian Space Industry has produced many types of rocket engines using various propellant types such as kerosene/Liquid Oxygen (Lox), liquid hydrogen/LOX, reusable engines like the Rd-701, nuclear rocket engines and more.

RD-120: Used on Zenit/Sea Launch as a 2nd stage engine.
RD-170: Used on Energia LV as the main strap-on engines
RD-180: Used on Atlas lll and Atlas V
RD-191: Used on Angara launch vehicle family
NK-33: Used on N-1 Moon Rocket
RD-58: Used on Proton and Zenit
RD-57: Was going to be used on N1-M

Books:

Stalin Organs: Russian Rocket Launchers
by Michael Foedrowitz from Amazon.com

- Rocket and Space Corporation Energia by Robert Godwin
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca

- Korolev : How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
Buy from Amazon.com

DVD

The Red Stuff - The True Story of the Russian Race for Space
from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca

Did you know?

* Chelomei experimented with various propellants types in the Soviet era in the 1960's. The largest Soviet rocket engine of the 1960's was the RD-270. It was going to be used in the UR-700 Moon Rocket. The RD-270 used hypergolic fuels.

* Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was the first person to develop written theories on rocket-powered space travel. He proposed he use of multi stage rockets and liquid fuel. His ideas were first published in 1903. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a Russian school teacher and is regarded as the Father of Rocketry.

Russian Rocket Engine Companies/Bureaus

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