RS-72
Engine · USA
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Credit: Boeing / Rocketdyne
Rocketdyne, Ottobrunn N2O4/MMH rocket engine. Aestus engine enhanced with the addition of a Boeing-Rocketdyne XLR 32 turbo-pump.
Dasa (Germany)/Rocketdyne Upper Stage. Gas generator, pump-fed. The RS 72 was a bipropellant turbopump rocket engine developed by Ottobrunn together with Boeing-Rocketdyne. The RS 72 was based on the Aestus engine used on the Ariane 5 upper stage. Performance was enhanced with the addition of a Boeing-Rocketdyne XLR 32 turbo-pump.
Engine: 138 kg (304 lb). Chamber Pressure: 60.00 bar. Area Ratio: 300.
Related
- Family
- Storable liquid
- Country
- USA
- Propellants
- N2O4/MMH
- Agency
- Ottobrunn, Rocketdyne