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On Netflix there is a documentary on the engines it's quite interesting. The engines were built just as the USSR was collapsing. The engines use a better grade
by dghughes 10y ago
On Netflix there is a documentary on the engines it's quite interesting.
The engines were built just as the USSR was collapsing. The engines use a better grade materials and it uses a more efficient combined pumping system 20% better.
The engines were supposed to be scrapped but one of the guys in management diverted them to a warehouse.
- travelton 10y agoDo you recall the name of the documentary?
- JshWright 10y ago"Cosmodrome"
- whistlerbrk 10y agoThe substance of the doc is good but it gets very repetitive and almost propaganda-esque toward the end
- basch 10y agowhat was the second one you mentioned?
- JshWright 10y agoThe same documentary with a different name ;) Never have twins, your brain is useless for quite some time afterwards...
- hluska 10y agoCongratulations on your little ones! We have one baby (she is almost 7 months old now) and my brain feels completely useless. I can't even imagine twins.
- CarVac 10y agoThose were the NK-33's used on Antares, until one of them failed and caused the loss in 2014... The RD-180 in question, by contrast, is newly manufactured specifically for the Atlas rockets.
- wolf550e 10y agoULA Atlas V uses newly built RD-180, not stored RD-33 from the 1960s. Both engines use the Russian oxygen rich staged combustion which makes them more fuel efficient than kerolox engines developed in the US.