RD-0109
Sign in to saveThe RD-0109 is a rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and kerosene in a gas generator combustion cycle. It has single nozzle and is an evolution of the RD-0105. It was the engine used on the Vostok Block-E that launched Yuri Gagarin to orbit.
Key facts
- Rocket engine.name
- RD-0105
- Rocket engine.image
- Russian thruster4.jpg
- Rocket engine.country_of_origin
- USSR
- Rocket engine.first_date
- 1959-01-02
- Rocket engine.last_date
- 1960-12-01
- Rocket engine.designer
- OKB-154, S.A. Kosberg
- Rocket engine.manufacturer
- Voronezh Mechanical Plant
- Rocket engine.purpose
- Upper Stage
- Rocket engine.associated
- Vostok 8K72
- Rocket engine.predecessor
- RD-0105
- Rocket engine.successor
- RD-0109
- Rocket engine.status
- Retired
- Rocket engine.type
- liquid
- Rocket engine.fuel
- RG-1
- Rocket engine.oxidiser
- LOX
- Rocket engine.cycle
- Gas Generator
- Rocket engine.combustion_chamber
- 1
- Rocket engine.specific_impulse_vacuum
- 316 seconds
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- Russian thruster4.jpg
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- RD-0109
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The RD-0109 is a rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and kerosene in a gas generator combustion cycle. It has single nozzle and is an evolution of the RD-0105. It was the engine used on the Vostok Block-E that launched Yuri Gagarin to orbit.
== Development == After the success of Sputnik 1, Korolev sent series of letters to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union proposing a bold plan to send robotic spacecraft to Mars and Venus. As part of such plan, a fourth stage was needed to enhance the three stage R-7 rocket and enable it to send useful payloads to those high energy destinations. This fourth stage was called Block-E, and its development started during 1958.