The White House took issue with the 2015 defense spending bill drafted by a House panel, which sets aside $220 million for the engine.
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The subcommittee’s draft forms the backbone of the defense spending bill that is expected to be marked up by the full House Appropriations Committee June 10.
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In the wake of a blue-ribbon panel’s report urging the U.S. government to develop a domestic replacement for the Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine, the Senate Armed Services Committee drafted a 2015 defense authorization bill that provides $100 million for that purpose.
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Senior U.S. military space leaders told a House subcommittee they backed the idea of developing an American-made alternative to the Russian-made RD-180.
Blue Origin completed a full-duration burn of a liquid hydrogen-fueled engine developed for the New Shepard suborbital spaceship and planned orbital vehicles.
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China has successfully test-fired the rocket engine that will power the next-generation heavy-lift booster, the Long March 5.
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The British government has agreed to invest 60 million British pounds in a company developing an air-breathing rocket engine.
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Competition is latest evidence of growing interest in using 3-D-printing to produce space technology.
PARIS — France’s Safran said April 30 it has completed the merger of SME, formerly a subsidiary of the state-owned SNPE, and Safran’s own Snecma Solid Propulsion division into Europe’s foremost solid-rocket propulsion specialist, to be known as Herakles.
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The Russian Comptroller's Office has accused the engineering firm NPO Energomash of selling RD-180 rocket engines to the United States at half their production cost, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported May 11.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is beginning to weigh options for developing a more capable and affordable upper-stage engine for the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets the service uses to launch most national security payloads.
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WASHINGTON — With a new presidential mandate to settle on a heavy-lift rocket design no later than 2015, NASA plans to complete by June 21 a study examining the feasibility of a common main engine for rockets that would launch civil, commercial and national security payloads, according to officials with the space agency.
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WASHINGTON — NASA is considering using some of the $3.1 billion it is requesting for heavy-lift and in-space propulsion research to develop a U.S. counterpart to the Russian-built RD-180 engine that powers the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, according to new budget documents the U.S. space agency released Feb. 22.
XCOR Aerospace said Sept. 2 it had reached several significant milestones in its Lynx 5K18 rocket engine test program.
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