Moscow. December, 31st. INTERFAX - Flight tests of the RD-171MV liquid-fueled engine for the Soyuz-5 rocket may begin in 2022, the state corporation Roscosmos reported on Friday.
"In 2022, the delivery of RD-171MV for flight tests begins," the report says.
According to Roscosmos, during 2021, a series of fire tests of several copies of the RD-171MV rocket engine for the Soyuz-5 rocket was carried out at the NPO Energomash scientific testing complex.
"The test program has been completed in full. NPO Energomash also sent the RD-171MV engine to the Progress RCC (part of Roscosmos) for assembly and testing as part of the first stage of the launch vehicle," the report says.
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 medium-class Soyuz-5 launch vehicle and a superheavy rocket.
