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USA to purchase Russia's Energomash rocket engines after 2016

Orbital Science’s technical specialists will visit Energomash next week to negotiate RD-181 purchases
Energomash rocket engine (archive) ITAR-TASS/Alexei Filippov
Energomash rocket engine (archive)
© ITAR-TASS/Alexei Filippov

MOSCOW, May 15. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia's Energomash is going to export new rocket engines RD-181 for Antares launch systems to the US after 2016, the manufacturer’s executive director Vladimir Solntsev told ITAR-TASS on Thursday.

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