NPO Energomash Completes Test Firing For Soyuz 5 Engines

RD-171MV
Credit: NPO Energomash
MOSCOW—Russia has made another step toward the development of a new Soyuz 5 medium lift launch vehicle, with NPO Energomash reporting on March 31 that it had completed test firings of the first RD-171MV liquid rocket engine. The tests lasted for three months and included eight firings. “The [test]...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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