RD-170 [SEP] manufacturer
RD-170
The RD-170 (РД-170, Ракетный Двигатель-170, Rocket Engine-170) is the world's most powerful multi-combustion chambered liquid-fuel rocket engine, designed and produced in the Soviet Union by NPO Energomash for use with the Energia launch vehicle. The engine burns the Russian equivalent of RP-1 fuel and LOX oxidizer in four combustion chambers, all supplied by one single-shaft, single-turbine turbopump rated at in a staged combustion cycle. By comparison, the Rocketdyne F-1 engine (five of which were used on each Saturn
/kerosene demonstrator engine developed between 1956 and 1967 at Bolkow GmbH (later Astrium).
- RD-170, RD-171, RD-180 and RD-191—a series of Soviet and Russian engines used on the Energia, Zenit, Atlas V, Angara and previously on the Atlas III launch vehicles. RD-171 (and its RD-171M successor), -180 and -191 are derivatives of RD-170.
- YF-100—Chinese engine developed in the 2000s; used on the Long March 5, Long March 6, and Long March 7.
- AR-1 An Aerojet Rocketdyne