Research and Development Institute of Mechanical Engineering
Appearance
Native name | ФГУП «Научно-исследовательский институт машиностроения» |
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Romanized name | FSUE “Research and Development Institute of Mechanical Engineering” |
Formerly | OKB-2 |
Company type | Federal State Unitary Enterprise |
Industry |
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Predecessor | NII-1 of Moscow |
Founded | September 1, 1958Soviet Union | in
Founder | Mikhail G. Mironov |
Headquarters | Builders Street 72 (Russian: ул. Строителей, 72), , |
Key people | Anatoly Long, Director of the Institute Adolf I. Razzhigaev Chief Engineer |
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Parent | Russian Federal Space Agency |
Website | Officila Website |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4][5] |
FSUE “Research and Development Institute of Mechanical Engineering” (Russian: ФГУП «Научно-исследовательский институт машиностроения»), also known as NIIMash, is a Russian rocket engine design and manufacturing company specialized in small thrusters. It is located in the city of Nizhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Oblast. It started as the B-175 factory of the NII-1 research institute, where Mikhail G. Mironov directed the development of liquid rocket engines research and testing.
Products
Current engines
Engines in current production:[6][7]
- Propulsion
- Experimental Reactive Control System Module:
- KDU 11D414NS:
- Fobos-Grunt Sample Return Spacecraft Propulsion System:
- Fobos-Grunt Spacecraft Thruster Modules:
- Thursters
- MD5: Cold gas thruster.
- MD08: Cold gas thruster.
- MD08-02: Cold gas thruster.
- 11D428A-16 (AKA RDMT-135A-16): 135N N2O4/UDMH thruster. Used on the KTDU-80.
- 11D428AF-16: N2O4/UDMH thrusters used by the Fobos-Grunt space mission.
- 11D457:
- 11D457F: N2O4/UDMH thrusters used by the Fobos-Grunt space mission.
- 11D458F: N2O4/UDMH thrusters used by the Fobos-Grunt space mission.
- 11D458M:
- 17D16 (AKA RDMT-200K): 200N GOX/Kerosene thruster. Used the the Buran DO thrusters.
- 17D58E: N2O4/UDMH thrusters used by the Briz-M upper stage.
- 17D58EF: N2O4/UDMH thrusters used by the Fobos-Grunt space mission.
Former engines
Engines that are no longer produced.[8]
- RDMT-0.4X: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-0.8: Nitrogen and helium cold gas thruster.
- RDMT-5: Cold gas thruster.
- RDMT-8: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-12: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-50: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-100: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-135 (AKA 11D428): N2O4/UDMH rocket engine. Used on the Soyuz-T
- RDMT-135M (AKA 11D428M): N2O4/UDMH rocket engine. Used on the Soyuz-TM
- RDMT-200: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-400: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-400A: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-400X: N2O4/UDMH rocket engine.
- RDMT-2600: GOX/Alcohol rocket engine.
See also
- NII-1 — The research institute where NIIMash started.
- Russian Federal Space Agency — The corporate parent of KB KhIMMASH.
References
- ^ "История" [History] (in Russian). Keldysh Research Center. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ^ "История" [History] (in Russian). NIIMash. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ^ "Руководители" [Leaders] (in Russian). NIIMash. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ^ "Находящиеся в ведении Роскосмоса" [Administered by the Russian Federal Space Agency] (in Russian). Roscosmos. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ^ "Предприятие НИИМАШ, значение предприятия в разработке ракетных двигателей" [Enterprise NIIMash, the value of the enterprise in the development of rocket engines]. салдинская-история.рф (in Russian). Retrieved 2015-07-30.
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value (help) - ^ "Двигатели 1944-2000: Аавиационные, Ракетные, Морские, Промышленные" [Aviadvigatel 19442-2000: Aviation, rocketry, naval and industry] (PDF) (in Russian). p. 140-144. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
- ^ "Products". NIIMash. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ^ "NII Mash". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2015-07-30.