Russian Rocket Tests Advance Taurus II Development

Credit: ALEXEY KOMAROV/AW&ST
Aerojet engineers will begin testing their version of the Soviet-era NK-33 oxygen/kerosene rocket engine as early as April at Stennis Space Center, Miss., following hot-fire tests of the Russian hardware here earlier this month. Initially designed for the Soviet lunar program, the NK-33 passed a...

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