Russia’s Energomash will deliver four rocket engines for US Atlas rockets under a contract with Lockheed Martin.
Four 5t engines in special containers will be loaded on trailers and delivered to Sheremetyevo Airport near Moscow, Russia, according to RIA Novosti.
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The engines will be later transported on board an An-124-100 cargo aircraft to the US.
The Russian-made RD-180 liquid-fuel engine uses an efficient, high-pressure staged combustion cycle.
In the 1990s, General Dynamics Space Systems Division had acquired rights for the RD-180, later purchased by Lockheed Martin, for use in the evolved expendable launch vehicle (EELV) and the Atlas programme.
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