Why replacing the Russian RD-180 engines is so difficult, and so senseless
By Dimitri Elkin and Woodrow Clark
The list of collateral damage from the geopolitical standoff between US-Russia continues to grow.
The latest victim is the successful rocket engine joint venture that lifts most of the American commercial and military satellites into space. America’s access to space depends mainly on the Atlas V rocket that is jointly produced by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, working together since 2006 as the United Launch Alliance (“ULA”), and which is powered into space by the powerful engine that is RD-180, produced by Russia’s NPO Energomash. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
