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Rutherford is a liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab [8] and manufactured in Long Beach, California. [9] The engine is used on the company's own rocket, Electron. It uses LOX (liquid oxygen) and RP-1 (refined kerosene) as its propellants and is the first flight-ready engine to use the electric-pump-fed cycle.
This page is an incomplete list of orbital rocket engine data and specifications. Current, upcoming, and in-development rocket engines. Engine ... Rutherford New ...
Its Rutherford engines are the first electric-pump-fed engine to power an orbital-class rocket. [17] Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft. Although the rocket was designed to be expendable, Rocket Lab has recovered the first stage twice and is working towards the capability of reusing the booster. [18]
'Rocket Engine-180') is a rocket engine that was designed and built in Russia. It features a dual combustion chamber , dual- nozzle design and is fueled by a RP-1 / LOX mixture. The RD-180 is derived from the RD-170 line of rocket engines, which were used in the Soviet Energia launch vehicle .
The designation for a specific motor looks like C6-3.In this example, the letter (C) represents the total impulse range of the motor, the number (6) before the dash represents the average thrust in newtons, and the number (3) after the dash represents the delay in seconds from propelling charge burnout to the firing of the ejection charge (a gas generator composition, usually black powder ...
On the rocket, a single NK-33 engine replaced the Soyuz's central RD-108 engine, and the four boosters of the first stage were omitted. The NK-33A, specifically modified for the Soyuz-2.1v, underwent a successful hot-fire test on 15 January 2013, [ 32 ] following a series of cold-fire and systems tests of the fully assembled rocket conducted in ...
The RD-180 used on the Atlas V replaced the three engines used on early Atlas rockets with a single engine and achieved significant payload and performance gains. This engine had also been chosen to be the main propulsion system for the first stage of the now cancelled Russian Rus-M rocket.
The RD-0162 rocket engine was developed at the Voronezh KBKhA after 2006, initially with an engine version aimed at 2,000 kN (200 tf) thrust, and later, after 2012, a smaller version with a thrust of 416 kN (42.4 tf) in the RD-0162SD version. Engine development funding was included in the Russian Federal Space Program for 2016–2025.