Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

PWR is to complete development RS-68A hydrogen engine

San Jose, California - This week it will deliver third test engine that will be integrated on Delta IV launch vehicle

PWR, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, has almost completed the development of hydrogen engine RS-68A, and has announced that this week it will consign the third test engine destined to be installed on a launch vehicle belonging to Delta IV launch family, projected by Boeing Integrated Defense System. It is a cryogenic engine more powerful than those currently used as propeller for the first stages of...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1127948
Rome, Italy, 04/06/2011 16:55
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

Finance and economyAirbus launches second tranche of its share buyback programme

It will include until 2,127,000 ones, starting from today and up to not over January 24, 2025

Airbus SE is launching the second tranche under its share buyback programme announced on 9 September 2024, which is being undertaken for the purpose of supporting future employee share ownership plan activities... more

IndustryContract for 15 additional USAF KC-46A tanker airplanes

Valued at USD 2.38 billion

Boeing will build 15 additional KC-46A Pegasus tankers under a Lot 11 contract award from the US Air Force valued at $2.38 billion. In all, the industry has 168 KC-46A multi-mission aerial refuelers on... more

Civil aviationSolarig Spain invests €1.15 billion to produce SAF aviation fuel

New plant in Teruel, Aragon, with capacity of over 75,000 tons per year

Equivalent to 33,000 flight connections between Zaragoza and London (considering a 50% sustainable fuel mix) more