USAF Begins RD-180 Alternative Risk Reduction Work

Credit: RD-180: NASA
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering as the first awardee of several to come under its program to mature rocket system propulsion technology in pursuit of a domestic alternative to the Russian RD-180 used for the Atlas V launch vehicle. Though...

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