15D305
Engine · Russia
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Credit: Yuzhnoye
Yuzhnoye, Tsurilnikov solid rocket engine. RT-23 stage I. Out of Production. Case-bound OPAL composite solid propellant charge with a star shape channel. The case was of organic fiber-wound plastic material. R-39 first stage.
The gimbaled engine nozzle partially intruded into the combustion chamber. Steering was accomplished moving the nozzle, mounted on a circular elastic hinge, in pitch and roll. Versions of the motor seem to have been manufactured by both Tsurilnikov in Russia and Yuzhnoye in the Ukraine.
Thrust (sl): 280,000 kgf.
Related
- Country
- Russia
- Launch Vehicles
- Rif, RT-23, RT-23 15Zh44, RT-23U 15Zh60, RT-23 15Zh52, RT-23U 15Zh61, Grom
- Propellants
- Solid
- Stages
- 15D305
- Agency
- Yuzhnoye, Tsurilnikov
- Bibliography
- 4477