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US needs up to 18 more Russian rocket engines: Pentagon


The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft stack sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday, March 21, 2016. Photo: Ben Smegelsky/NASA via AP WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will need to buy up to 18 more Russian-built RD-180 engines to power rockets carrying US military satellites into space over the next six years or so, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said in an interview on Friday. Congress banned use of the Russian RD-180 rocket engines for military use after 2019, following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region …read more

Source: The Himalayan Times

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