News Archive / Tagged: RD-180

• Aerojet Rocketdyne completes AR1 preburner hot-fire test

  Heather SmithMay 10th, 2017

  Aerojet Rocketdyne announced on May 3, 2017, that it completed a hot-fire test of its preburner for the AR1 rocket engine at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The company’s focus is to have an “American-designed and built” booster system that will replace the Russian-built RD-180 engines that are frequently used to launch U.S. national security, civil, and NASA payloads to orbit.

• Russia claims U.S. will continue to purchase RD-180 engines

  Lloyd CampbellApril 22nd, 2017

  On Friday, April 14, 2017, Yuri Vlasov, CEO of the United Rocket and Space Corporation, stated that the RD-180 engines, which currently power the Atlas V booster, would be delivered to the United States until 2024–2025.