RD-0217

Manufacturer Name: RD-0217. Government Designation: 15D2. Designer: Kosberg. Developed in: 1963-66. Application: UR-100, UR-100K / RS-10 (SS-11) stage 1. Propellants: N2O4/UDMH. Thrust(vac): 219.000 kN (49,233 lbf). Isp: 313 sec. Chambers: 1. Chamber Pressure: 147.00 bar. Country: Russia. Status: Out of Production. First Flight: 1966.

Staged combustion cycle. Version of RD-0216 without tank pressurization system. Manufacturing until 1974, operational use until 1991.

Bibliography and Further Reading

Russian Arms Catalogue, Vol 5 and 6, Military Parade, Moscow via Dietrich Haeseler.

Siddiqi, Asif A, Soviet Space Web Page, 1999 via Dietrich Haeseler. Asif Siddiqi presents material that could not be fit into his monumental 'Challenge to Apollo'. Accessed at: http://home.earthlink.net/~cliched/main_space.html.

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