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TECHNOLOGY DETAIL : SPECIAL REPORT
ROCKET VEHICLES - 1. RUSSIA & UKRAINE
! MISSING DATA !
THIRD EDITION
ISBN 1-899773-17-7
by Dr Keith B. Hindley
DATA for more than 600 ENGINES and THRUSTERS 1940-2001, are INCLUDED in an ENTIRELY NEW THIRD EDITION of this MUCH PRAISED DATABASE of RUSSIAN ROCKET ENGINE CHARACTERISTICS and PERFORMANCE.
This massive Report provides background on a vast array of Ex-Soviet rocket engine technology and helps to underline the high Soviet spending on engine development in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The background on each engine is described along with performance data (very comprehensive data in many cases), plus a discussion of engine applications. Many new engines have been added since the Second Edition of the Report in 1992 and some new engine additions are described and illustrated for the first time in a Western technical publication. Highlights of the Report include : much greater detail about the new generation closed-cycle RD-0120 hydrogen and the RD-120 and RD-170 kerosene engines; the Kuznetsov oxygen-kerosene engines NK-9, NK-19, NK-31, NK-33, NK-39 and NK-43, some of which were used in the ill-fated N-1 moon rocket and became the most reliable rocket engines ever developed; further details of storable engines for Proton launch vehicle stages; the RD-270 storable 640-tonne thrust engine and upper stage storable engines working at 275 atmospheres; more hydrogen-fuelled engines including the NK-15V, RD-54, RD-56, RD-57 and RO-97 engines and an expander cycle engine (SI 478); the RD-301 fluorine-ammonia engine (SI 400); the RD-502 pentaborane-hydrogen peroxide engine; dual-fuel hydrogen-kerosene-oxygen and hydrogen-methane-oxygen RD-700 and RD-0700 series engines; the RD-400 and RD-0410 series nuclear engines; the RD-58MF and the new RD-160 series of orbital manoeuvring engines; the S5-92 and a wide range of spacecraft engines and thrusters and some new Russian designs and engine proposals for possible future development.
The Report includes an appendix "Some observations on Soviet/Russian Rocket Engine Technology" by the UK propulsion designer/engineer Mr Alan Bond, which concludes that "technical characteristics of Soviet engines since the mid-1960s are outstanding, being hardware embodiments of what remained theoretical knowledge elsewhere in the world". It also includes a brief history of early Soviet rocket engine work, carries biographies of leading Soviet/Russian rocket engine designers and profiles of Russian organisations involved in engine research, design, development and manufacturing.
1,135 A4 pages in two thick volumes, softcover bound, many colour and black & white photographs and system, component, hydraulic & engineering line-drawings, diagrams, charts. This completely new Third Edition to be published in March 2001.
UK £1,680 * or US $2,950 *
additional copies in one order to one address : second copy £840 or $1,475 : extra copies £560 or $983
* 20% discount prices - UK £1,344 or US $2,360 are available for direct client orders accompanied by payment received on or before 1st March 2001.
text specimen pages will be available after publication