Roscosmos reported that the new system will automate the processes of collecting, storing and processing information about the parameters of the tested engines, the parameters of the stand at the stages of preparation and conducting fire tests
MOSCOW, February 9. /tass/. The Research and Production Association Energomash (part of Roscosmos) is preparing for complex tests of a new information and measurement system at the fire test stand No. 1, which is designed to improve the quality of fire tests of RD-171MV liquid rocket engines. This was reported on Wednesday in the press service of Roscosmos.
"The system being created allows registering several hundred parameters. It is built using the latest equipment with high technical and metrological characteristics. This will increase the accuracy and quality of the recorded parameters during fire tests of RD-171MV engines for further qualitative analysis by design engineers," Igor Arbuzov, Director General of NPO Energomash, was quoted in the press service as saying.
Roscosmos explained that the information and measurement system will replace the obsolete measuring complex of slow-changing parameters, the measurement system of fast-changing parameters. The contractor of the works is Proton-PM (part of the integrated structure of NPO Energomash of the State Corporation Roscosmos).
"The stages of design work, manufacturing, installation of the system and commissioning at the fire test stand No. 1 have already been completed. Now the system is being put into trial operation, measures are being taken for metrological certification, its entry into the State Register of Measuring Instruments. After that, comprehensive tests of the new information and measurement system will be carried out," the state corporation said.
The new system will automate the processes of collecting, storing and processing information about the parameters of the tested engines, the parameters of the stand at the stages of preparation and conducting fire tests, Roscosmos noted.
Earlier it was reported that NPO Energomash transferred the first RD-171MV engine to the Progress Rocket and Space Center in 2021 for testing.
