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To: rktman

US motors cannot lift as much, are not as reliable, and cost more.

The upcoming Russian Fenix generation of super heavy lift motors surpass all current and future US motors - public and private.


3 posted on 05/29/2016 8:43:09 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

There are no such engines — they plan to upgrade the RD-171 (a dual-gimbal four-engine cluster often erroneously claimed to be a single engine) to be a methane-burner. Before the end of Roscosmos, development was estimated to *start* in 2018.


11 posted on 05/29/2016 11:09:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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