The final nail in the Atlas V’s coffin has nothing to do with how much money it takes to put a payload into orbit, but everything to do with the engines the rocket uses to do it. Since the ...

Although this particular engine was new, the design dated back ... and the RD-180 successfully launched an Atlas III rocket in May of 2000. Thanks for the tip, [M]! Retrotechtacular is a column ...

and the Delta Heavy with the new Vulcan rocket. The Atlas series uses Russian-made RD-180 engines. Vulcan uses American-made hardware, including Blue Origin and Aerojet Rocketdyne engines.

MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. The United States plans to continue using Russian RD-180 rocket engines for its Atlas launch vehicles, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations William ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to chemical rockets ...

Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos will halt the deliveries of rocket engines to the ... The ban applies to RD-180 engines that are used on US Atlas V launch vehicles as the main ...