The first firing tests of the liquid rocket engine RD-191 have been
successfully carried out in the town of Himky, near Moscow. The tests took
place in the Scientific Industrial Cooperation ENERGOMASH named for the
academician V.P.Glushko.
The engine is proposed to be used on the first stage of the new Russian
carrier rockets, ANGARA, which are under way now in the Khrunichev State
Scientific and Industrial Space Centre (SSISC), as it was claimed to a
reporter from RIA NOVOSTY in the press department of SSISC, 31 July.
Khrunichev SSISC specialists noticed that "the engine RD-191 uses liquid
oxygene as an oxidizer and kerosene as a fuel. There is one combustion
chamber and a new turbine pump conveying the component mixture into the
chamber. A new adjusting system has been used to control flows of the fuel
components". It was emphasized in SSISC that "an engine sample aroused
great interest among space specialists as "a new word" in
middle-class-rocket engine designing when it was demonstrated at the
International Aerospace Salon in Le Bourget, France, earlier this June".
Space News from Alexander Zhelezniakov
Translated by Nataliya Lipunova
