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NIIMash
Native name
ФГУП «Научно-исследовательский институт машиностроения»
FSUE “Research and Development Institute of Mechanical Engineering”
FormerlyOKB-2
Company typeFederal State Unitary Enterprise
Industry
  • Liquid rocket engine manufacturing
  • Development, production and operation of the bench test equipment
  • production of air separation products and liquefied natural gas
PredecessorNII-1 of Moscow
FoundedSeptember 1, 1958 (1958-09-01) in Soviet Union
FounderMikhail G. Mironov
HeadquartersBuilders Street 72 (Russian: ул. Строителей, 72), ,
Key people
Anatoly Long, Director of the Institute
Adolf I. Razzhigaev Chief Engineer
Products
ParentRussian Federal Space Agency
WebsiteOfficila 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

References

  1. ^ "История" [History] (in Russian). Keldysh Research Center. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  2. ^ "История" [History] (in Russian). NIIMash. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  3. ^ "Руководители" [Leaders] (in Russian). NIIMash. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  4. ^ "Находящиеся в ведении Роскосмоса" [Administered by the Russian Federal Space Agency] (in Russian). Roscosmos. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  5. ^ "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. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Products". NIIMash. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  8. ^ "NII Mash". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2015-07-30.