Rostec Tested Parts of a New Ignition system for Reusable Space Rockets

Rostec State Corporation’s Technodinamika holding has supplied elements of the ignition system for the ignition device of the RD-0177 engine to the Roscosmos enterprise (JSC KBKhA).

The devices are designed for engines of the return stages of Amur-SPG rockets and other space launch vehicles.

“To be used in the engines of the return stages of launch vehicles, the ignition system must be reusable. The engine igniter plug, as well as the ignition unit, created by Technodinamika, were also tested for this parameter - as part of the test program, it was successfully switched on eight times,” Igor Nasenkov, General Director of the Technodinamika holding said.

The elements of the ignition system are a special spark plug integrated into the ignition device of the engine, as well as an ignition unit. Their main feature is increased structural strength and the possibility of reusable use.

The products were created by the Ufa research and production enterprise Molniya of the Technodinamika holding. Ignition systems developed by UNPP Molniya were used in the Energia launch vehicle, which in 1988 launched the Buran reusable spacecraft into orbit.