Recent content by Sergiy Fakas

My speciality was liquid propellant rocket engines with some knowledge of solid rocket motors.

I'm fro Ukraine. I've graduated airspace university in 1993. Soviet Union was preparing rocket engineers in huge amounts - there were about 200 students who graduated in the same year and as rocket scientists.

I'm not russian. Russia is kills our citizens just 400 km from my home. NASA must stop cooperating with Roskosmos led by Rogozin who is complete idiot and responsible for full degradation of the space industry in Russia. Just look at Sea Launch ships which were moved to Russia from Long Beach...

Well... Russian space program is dead now. They are building Angara since 1994 and all they did is the wasted launch complex at Vostichniy. I doubt if the engine I mentioned is in use now. Monopropellant engines are better for this purpose. As for "a solid propellant fixed to the wall of the...

You are wrong :) - this engine is not the first ever restartable solid motor in the world. Back in 80-th I've seen soviet classified solid motor able to restart up to 10 (may be) times. It was operational and used for spy sat corrections/film return capsules drop. It uses special powder to...