It worked for more than 3 thousand seconds
MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. The new rocket engine was able to run on tests for more than 3 thousand seconds, which is a record. This was announced by the chief designer of JSC "KB Khimavtomatiki" Viktor Gorokhov on the air of the program "Military acceptance" on the TV channel "Zvezda".
"We conducted such a long test, and the engine worked not only for 750 seconds per launch, but worked for more than 3 thousand seconds," Gorokhov said.
According to him, the new product is arranged according to a closed circuit, which makes it the most economical in the world among all oxygen-kerosene engines.
At the moment, on the first stages of rockets, when launched into space, the engines work for about 140 seconds, and the resource tests of the engines of the third stages of rockets usually do not last more than 280 seconds.
JSC "Design Bureau of Chemical Automation" is located in Voronezh and is a developer of rocket engines for the second and third stages of most domestic space launch vehicles, including the Design Bureau is developing the RD0124 MS engine for the second stage of the promising Soyuz-5 rocket.
