Moscow. September 7. INTERFAX - The second copy of the RD-171MV engine, designed for the Soyuz-5 rocket, has successfully passed fire tests, Roscosmos reported.
"The firing tests of the second RD-171MV rocket engine have been completed at the research and testing complex of the Energomash Scientific and Production Association named after Academician V. P. Glushko. The test program has been completed in full. The tests were carried out in the normal mode, " the state corporation reported.
As the head of Energomash, Igor Arbuzov, notes, the company " strictly meets all the deadlines for the production of engines, so that in 2023 Soyuz-5 will begin to pass flight tests."
"Now the following copies of the RD-171MV are being assembled on the slipways of our assembly shop, and the production shops are manufacturing parts for engine components and assemblies that will be put on the slipway next year," he added.
In December 2020, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, reported on the first full-size fire test of the world's most powerful liquid rocket engine RD-171MV, all parameters were normal. The RD-171MV engine is being created for a promising Soyuz-5 medium-class launch vehicle and a superheavy rocket.