Russian-American RD-180 Rocket Engine Achieves 100 Percent Mission Success
MOSCOW AIR SHOW, Zhukovsky, Russia, August 19, 2009 – The RD-180 booster engine has successfully powered 22 consecutive Atlas series rocket launches with 100 percent mission success.
The RD-180 rocket booster engine is provided by RD AMROSS, LLC, a partnership between the world’s two premier liquid rocket propulsion companies -- NPO Energomash of Russia and U.S.-based Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.
The RD-180, a dual thrust chamber assembly engine, delivers nearly 1 million pounds of thrust to launch the United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket on a variety of commercial and military satellite missions. The engine is flight proven on the Atlas III and the Atlas V during the last nine years.
“The high performance of the RD-180 and its demonstrated reliability are direct benefits to mission success,” said Steve Bouley, vice president, Launch Vehicle & Hypersonic Systems, P&W Rocketdyne.
“The RD-180 engine has proven to be one of the most reliable and safest rocket engines in the world with its support of the Atlas series," said Len Dest, president and CEO, RD AMROSS.
RD AMROSS, LLC, is a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and NPO Energomash of Khimky, Russia. NPO Energomash manufactures the RD-180 for RD AMROSS, and is a world leader in designing, manufacturing, testing, and providing services for liquid propulsion rocket engines.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., a part of Pratt & Whitney, is a preferred provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications, including the main engines for the space shuttle, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines.
Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.
Nancy Colaguori
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
+1-561-796-2219
nancy.colaguori@pwr.utc.com
Bryan Kidder
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
+1-818-586-2213
bryan.kidder@pwr.utc.com
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