China plans to buy Russian RD-180

You can create a promising super-heavy launch vehicle, China is interested in buying Russia’s bicameral 400 tons of rocket engine RD-180, said Tuesday “Interfax” a source familiar with the situation. “It is, at least for purchases of finished rocket engines, and above all – the RD-180, the majority, as the case go before the sale of the license for their production”, – said the spokesman, said a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, the ability to China’s purchase of Russian rocket from the previous day. According to him, “The other option for us -. Unwanted” scenario “Now everything depends on the end of protection for the negotiation of an intergovernmental agreement technology, and then there is a contradiction: China’s desire to use the engine in its sole discretion, and we can does not accept that the rules of the system, the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), we We take full responsibility for the use of a non-member of the MTCR. ” , – He explained. Call Partner agency said that developed and produced near Moscow NPO “Energomash” RD-180 are currently in the US, he said, “the Chinese have chosen the motor to the possible establishment RD-180 on the basis of universal rocket because of the development of the modular versions of Russian rocket “Rus-M” The ability to enter the operator’s payload into orbit even if one engine fails, the “package” the first phase “. Russia previous management Roscosmos refused to develop promising booster middle class with high capacity “Rus-M” in favor of “Angara”. The draft Federal Space Program (FCP) for the period 2016 to 2025 do not provide for the establishment of the Russian super-heavy launch vehicle category. PCF offers only take heavy launcher “Angara-A5” and the “Angara-A5V”, with a capacity of 35 tonnes. Source: Interfax.ru