The first engine for the Amur-SPG reusable rocket will appear in 2023

The first oxygen-methane engine RD-0177 for the promising reusable launch vehicle Amur-SPG with a returnable stage will appear at the end of 2023. This was announced by the director of the enterprise “Design Bureau of Chemical Automation” Sergey Kovalev in a video distributed by the state corporation “Roscosmos”.

“Today we are creating a fundamentally new engine with a thrust of 100 tons. This is our new development. The first engine should appear at the end of this year, then go through a cycle of fire tests. All work should be completed by the end of 2025,” he said.

In April, Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said that Russia has accelerated work on the creation of reusable space rockets.

In the same month, Mikhail Izyumov, general director of the Research and Production Association of Automation, said that the promising reusable Amur-SPG rocket would receive a universal control system.

In March, Roskosmos reported that the state contract for the technical design of the Amur-LNG reusable methane medium rocket had been signed.