Great video Sky! These engines are really quite something. Their ancestors are the NK-33 motors from Kuznetsov, designed and built in the 1960s. They allowed high-efficiencies in a 'staged- combustion cycle' but required special alloys and coatings which were completely unknown in the West. The NK-33 was created to fix short-comings in Kuznetsov's original NK-15 motors which powered the colossal N1 rocket. Had the fifth N1 flown, it would have used NK-33s; but after four failed launches, the new head of the Soviet space programme, Valentin Glushko, ordered it cancelled and the rockets broken up. Kuznetsov continued work on the NK-33 until he was forced to stop and ordered to scrap the motors - but he refused and had the completed motors shipped to Siberia where they lay in store until after the end of the Cold War. Meanwhile, Glushko went on to develop the monster Energia - which needed the RD-170 engines, the direct ancestor of the RD-180 in the Atlas. It's a small world after all. Russia needed money, so it sold 36 NK-33s to Aerojet who planned to use them on the Kistler K1 and Antares rockets. Meanwhile, in Russia, the NK-33 now powers the Soyuz 2 rocket. Not bad for a piece of technology more than 50 years old. There's a rather old documentary from the UK's Channel 4, called 'The Engines that Came in from Cold' about the NK-33 which might be online. It has some footage of the N1 launches which is well worth anyone's time.
Correction / clarification... the Atlas III first stage core was the classic Atlas pressurised stainless steel construction, but with a single RD-180 propulsion section instead of the older Rocketdyne 3-engine assembly. When they went to Atlas V they used a conventional construction like the Titan produced by Martin who joined with Lockheed and bought the Atlas / Centaur program from General Dynamics (Convair).
Both the Atlas V and the Delta IV Heavy took over where the Titan IVB left. The Titans may have been expensive and technically complicated to operate but still I have to confess that I miss them.
As a small kid, I watched the Mercury launches. The Redstone wasn't powerful enough to get the Mercury capsule into orbit; so the first two missions only flew a 15 minute parabolic arc. Atlas though did have the power to put the spacecraft into orbit. Heady times!
Delta five heavy was developed and is used quite frequently although it no longer uses Russian engines (for political reasons) it uses a newly developed version of the space shuttles RS 25 engine with a carbon fiber nozzle design to ablate instead of using a regenerative cooling nozzle which increases complexity. You can tell a difference because the exhaust is reddish orange from the carbon nozzle
Nice summary but I must make a correction... the original smaller 4m fairing is not made by Ruag, it is made by ULA in Harlingden Texas from conventional materials.
While the first stage isnt what it once was in the rocketry market. Centaur is still probably the best second stage out there. I would say Centaur is the real ace that ULA holds over much of the launch market. Now we need a video on Delta IV, Its especially interesting because it seems like it rarely flies in its single stick configuration and only flies heavy. Also it sets itself on fire at ignition. And that is normal and expected function, not a design flaw. There is even a Delta IV heavy launch tonight or this morning depending on opinion (Thurs Aug 27 0552 GMT/UTC/Zulu) well if everything works out, rockets are fickle creatures.
ULA stopped making the single-stick version of the Delta IV several years ago because it was in the same launch class as Atlas V but with a much higher price. The only reason that they still fly the Delta IV Heavy is because it can launch heavier payloads than even the largest Atlas V configuration can.
Since you do such a great job with the rocket episodes, would you consider doing one for the capsules as well? Dragon-2 (SpaceX's manned capsule) just got done sending the first astronauts to the ISS from US soil in I think 8 years. Starliner (Boeing's capsule) had so much trouble on it's first test flight that they have been told by NASA that they have to fly another test flight before they will put crew on it, instead of being put into service on the 2nd mission like they were planning. I expect something of the same mind-set that led to the 737-Max problems happened there but I don't know for sure. And since I can't seem to get a good source in English, perhaps you could cover the goings on about a new space capsule for Russia, I think it's called Federation? Like I said, there's not much info that is in English, so I've been making do with what I can get from Google Translate but I know I'm missing out on some information.
Sky, you blow my mind! Thanks for adding space! Do some more on Russian space design & maybe something on the new Russian manned spacecraft Federation? As far as i’m concerned the U.S. and Russia should get back to absolute cooperation in space. We do it well together, like this time we should go Mars together!
Roscosmos is no longer engaged in space, it is engaged in propaganda, budget theft and stupid statements. only this year, the head of Roscosmos promised a reusable Soyuz-5 rocket with a jet landing, a Baikal rocket that should return with the help of wings, a Russian space station, a human flight to the moon, Mars, a Russian-Chinese station on the moon, a super-heavy Yenisei rocket, a nuclear tug for flights to Saturn and other stars, a starlink-type satellite group. and it's only September.
@@qwert666ish ага, канешна. я живу свободном мире где телевизор не отсасывает у власти. кстати, на западе нет такой концепции как "власть", это слово и концепция есть только в русском, чтобы передать суть нужно долго объяснять, но по сути, ваша власть это диктатура которая вас на*** ...мазывает и обворовывает, а кто понял что это за развод кормит новичком или садит на долго НИ ЗА ЧТО
From the Amerikantsi: We love the Russian people. We love Russian culture. We Love Russian rockets. We love Russian Sukhois and MiG's. We love AK-47's. We just don't like your president. But we love this channel.
Love the humour - another great analysis. Sadly, it seems Atlas V is retiring - where is CST-100 going to go now? Boeing messed up badly on this and 737 MAX - where are the engineers?
The autor didn't tell the story WHY ULA ended up using russian boosters, it brings shame to them. So recently someone asked Tory Bruno, the CEO of ULA, why they are using none-American boosters, to what Mr. Bruno replied: "We have RD180 because the USG asked us to keep Russian Rocket Scientists out of North Korea and Iran after the Cold War. Now well into development of an American engine that will be the most advanced in the world". And that 2020 is the last year Americans buying engines and seats for their astronauts. Russians were getting roughly 600 millions yearly for giving a ride to the US astronauts and the engines, which covered all operational costs of Roskosmos and even brought good profit, until now. I would like to see how many people will be laid off next year in russia.
Space X is showing Boeing up big time,this Starliner was suppose to launch in 2017 and engines are from Russia,SpaceX builds their own in USA and reuses them,Falcon 20million per launch 45 million for Starliner,Boeing reliability is questionable,bad management!
The Russians make damn good rockets. Its seems Russia never really stopped developing and improving on their rockets/ICBMs and their capabilities-or, atleast has consistently invested in rocket technology in general. Whereas the US seems to have not focused, and invested, as heavily as their Russian counterparts on rocket, ICBMs, engines, efficiency, etc.. Maybe the US is just letting SpsceXs do all the heavy lifting when it comes to all things rockets-you know the whole self landing rockets and what not.
that is pure bullshit, Obama did something revolutionary when he was in the office, commercialized the space transportation, and the US gov stopped manufacturing spacecraft. as a result we now have SpaceX and and others. While russian still using their 50-60 y.o. technology.
Russian engines are easily available and cheap to acquire and therefore Russia is willing to sell it. Wait for Russian Trolls claiming the US can't build rocket engines.. 🤣🤣🤣
@@mateuszzimon8216 İts Musk not Qoask. How about trying to learn some English spelling. Hey this is still science fiction for Russia. ua-cam.com/video/6YyV-otP3pI/v-deo.html
Great video Sky!
These engines are really quite something. Their ancestors are the NK-33 motors from Kuznetsov, designed and built in the 1960s. They allowed high-efficiencies in a 'staged- combustion cycle' but required special alloys and coatings which were completely unknown in the West.
The NK-33 was created to fix short-comings in Kuznetsov's original NK-15 motors which powered the colossal N1 rocket. Had the fifth N1 flown, it would have used NK-33s; but after four failed launches, the new head of the Soviet space programme, Valentin Glushko, ordered it cancelled and the rockets broken up. Kuznetsov continued work on the NK-33 until he was forced to stop and ordered to scrap the motors - but he refused and had the completed motors shipped to Siberia where they lay in store until after the end of the Cold War. Meanwhile, Glushko went on to develop the monster Energia - which needed the RD-170 engines, the direct ancestor of the RD-180 in the Atlas. It's a small world after all.
Russia needed money, so it sold 36 NK-33s to Aerojet who planned to use them on the Kistler K1 and Antares rockets. Meanwhile, in Russia, the NK-33 now powers the Soyuz 2 rocket. Not bad for a piece of technology more than 50 years old.
There's a rather old documentary from the UK's Channel 4, called 'The Engines that Came in from Cold' about the NK-33 which might be online. It has some footage of the N1 launches which is well worth anyone's time.
Great comment, thanks. Have found the documentary you recommend 👍
Mike Richards Soyuz 2.1v🤮
Not really... rival design bureaus, different family.
@@iain3713 Envious? We know that the soyuz is the best and most reliable rocket.
Sky, your content keeps improving! I absolutely love it! Anything Aviation and Aerospace is fair game! Fantastic
Correction / clarification... the Atlas III first stage core was the classic Atlas pressurised stainless steel construction, but with a single RD-180 propulsion section instead of the older Rocketdyne 3-engine assembly.
When they went to Atlas V they used a conventional construction like the Titan produced by Martin who joined with Lockheed and bought the Atlas / Centaur program from General Dynamics (Convair).
i love how your videos are going to the aerospace theme. u made me happy.
doing rockets now? :o Woahh, this is freaking awsome!
He's done a few already! I suggest you check his previous videos :)
He did Ariane 5, and Proton.
@@bishop51807 U mean best video about Proton on UA-cam.....
Dude, He had started doing video about rocket 2 years ago (He do about falcon 1, falcon 9, falcon heavy, proton rocket, Ariane 5)
One of the best channels on YT. Thanks for the great videos!
Aerospace lovers worldwide take note... Sky has all of your needs covered.
Love your work Sky.
Thanks
Always quality content. Thank you!
"This disgraceful cooperation" :D
A beautiful rocket with a beautiful history.
Both the Atlas V and the Delta IV Heavy took over where the Titan IVB left. The Titans may have been expensive and technically complicated to operate but still I have to confess that I miss them.
very good, informative and well-illustrated documentaries..keep up the good work
Good video, Sky)
Now I know how to pronounce Zenit. And yes, I was pronouncing Energya correctly. THANKS!
I mention both products on a daily basis wrongly, boy is my face red.
Because He’s Russian
As a small kid, I watched the Mercury launches. The Redstone wasn't powerful enough to get the Mercury capsule into orbit; so the first two missions only flew a 15 minute parabolic arc. Atlas though did have the power to put the spacecraft into orbit. Heady times!
Maybe we should all just get along so I can maybe live to see interstellar travel😃
I would love to see videos about Buran and the Space Shuttle. A nice combination between rockets and aircraft
Always a great show!!
Great video. Great rocket. Why can't we all just get along!??!?
That groovy music you use on this video
Thank you as always
Excellent video. Thx
omg, I love all the sketchy shade being thrown in this video.
Beautiful Atlas,
Love the sardonic humor, Sky. 😎😏🥰
Delta five heavy was developed and is used quite frequently although it no longer uses Russian engines (for political reasons) it uses a newly developed version of the space shuttles RS 25 engine with a carbon fiber nozzle design to ablate instead of using a regenerative cooling nozzle which increases complexity. You can tell a difference because the exhaust is reddish orange from the carbon nozzle
Nice summary but I must make a correction... the original smaller 4m fairing is not made by Ruag, it is made by ULA in Harlingden Texas from conventional materials.
Good vid bro.
Lokheed and Boeing bromance - I laughed out aloud.
Great video
While the first stage isnt what it once was in the rocketry market. Centaur is still probably the best second stage out there. I would say Centaur is the real ace that ULA holds over much of the launch market. Now we need a video on Delta IV, Its especially interesting because it seems like it rarely flies in its single stick configuration and only flies heavy. Also it sets itself on fire at ignition. And that is normal and expected function, not a design flaw. There is even a Delta IV heavy launch tonight or this morning depending on opinion (Thurs Aug 27 0552 GMT/UTC/Zulu) well if everything works out, rockets are fickle creatures.
ULA stopped making the single-stick version of the Delta IV several years ago because it was in the same launch class as Atlas V but with a much higher price. The only reason that they still fly the Delta IV Heavy is because it can launch heavier payloads than even the largest Atlas V configuration can.
let's move this movie to the TOP!
I wonder what our nations could achieve if they'd cooperate in a common sense. ... Thanks so much for this video!
Since you do such a great job with the rocket episodes, would you consider doing one for the capsules as well?
Dragon-2 (SpaceX's manned capsule) just got done sending the first astronauts to the ISS from US soil in I think 8 years.
Starliner (Boeing's capsule) had so much trouble on it's first test flight that they have been told by NASA that they have to fly another test flight before they will put crew on it, instead of being put into service on the 2nd mission like they were planning. I expect something of the same mind-set that led to the 737-Max problems happened there but I don't know for sure.
And since I can't seem to get a good source in English, perhaps you could cover the goings on about a new space capsule for Russia, I think it's called Federation? Like I said, there's not much info that is in English, so I've been making do with what I can get from Google Translate but I know I'm missing out on some information.
Superb!
Atlas 5 👍👌 RD-180 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes! one of the best rockets of the 21st century
Yeah, the collaboration ended, crazy cold war
Sky, you blow my mind! Thanks for adding space! Do some more on Russian space design & maybe something on the new Russian manned spacecraft Federation? As far as i’m concerned the U.S. and Russia should get back to absolute cooperation in space. We do it well together, like this time we should go Mars together!
Roscosmos is no longer engaged in space, it is engaged in propaganda, budget theft and stupid statements. only this year, the head of Roscosmos promised a reusable Soyuz-5 rocket with a jet landing, a Baikal rocket that should return with the help of wings, a Russian space station, a human flight to the moon, Mars, a Russian-Chinese station on the moon, a super-heavy Yenisei rocket, a nuclear tug for flights to Saturn and other stars, a starlink-type satellite group. and it's only September.
@@partys9652 Wait, roscosmos still is engaged in Space. In 2019 they make (IRC) level 3 IAEA incident.
and a lot propaganda
there won't be any new russian manned spacecraft, learn that not all propaganda is real. lol
@@qwert666ish очень аргументированный ответ.....
@@qwert666ish ага, канешна. я живу свободном мире где телевизор не отсасывает у власти. кстати, на западе нет такой концепции как "власть", это слово и концепция есть только в русском, чтобы передать суть нужно долго объяснять, но по сути, ваша власть это диктатура которая вас на*** ...мазывает и обворовывает, а кто понял что это за развод кормит новичком или садит на долго НИ ЗА ЧТО
Nice video
Can you do the F4 Phantom II
Soyuz please.. 🤩 make an informative one, covering everything from its ICBM days to today
Maybe do the Saturn V!
The two engine 2nd stage again has only been used once so far launching starliner as they need the redundancy and power
Поехали!
*insert Russian anthem here
good luck America with the crewed spaceflights new plan. Learned from RD-180 and all R&Ds
Amazing story
Alley cat in heat?????
Omg! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
From the Amerikantsi: We love the Russian people. We love Russian culture. We Love Russian rockets. We love Russian Sukhois and MiG's. We love AK-47's. We just don't like your president. But we love this channel.
who cares what do you 'love' or not.
mind your own business.
Sky Talking About Plains awesome Sky Talking About Rockets awesome squared Thank you
Irony upon irony, concise American History delivered bu a Roosian
As an American, how can you evaluate this Russian?)
Love the humour - another great analysis. Sadly, it seems Atlas V is retiring - where is CST-100 going to go now? Boeing messed up badly on this and 737 MAX - where are the engineers?
the end sounds like sourcing the materials for the blackbird, from russia to spy on russia.
1:10 Millennial Atlas wants to know if you even lift, bro.
15:32, you said Centaur Four, but it’s Centaur V.
Looks like a liquid fuel that doesn't leave a smoke trail unlike the solid fueled booster rockets US made rockets.
What? The U.S. has had liquid fueled rockets since the inception of the U.S. space program
Starliner launched on that rocket
The optimistic honeymoon period
The autor didn't tell the story WHY ULA ended up using russian boosters, it brings shame to them. So recently someone asked Tory Bruno, the CEO of ULA, why they are using none-American boosters, to what Mr. Bruno replied: "We have RD180 because the USG asked us to keep Russian Rocket Scientists out of North Korea and Iran after the Cold War. Now well into development of an American engine that will be the most advanced in the world". And that 2020 is the last year Americans buying engines and seats for their astronauts. Russians were getting roughly 600 millions yearly for giving a ride to the US astronauts and the engines, which covered all operational costs of Roskosmos and even brought good profit, until now. I would like to see how many people will be laid off next year in russia.
Brings shame to who?
Sky - Care to make a video on the history of the SX Raptor engines? Its history is suspect and some believe it to have Russian roots as well.
The author forgot to tell you that the is former engines RD180, as since 2021, there will be no russian engines on american rockets.
I missed the part were we are in 2021, or where the rocket's engine has changed.
"Ostridgenauts" ;)
SISYPHUS VASILIAS Ostrich flightless no more once they launch.
RD 170 4 chamber rocket engine
RD 180 2 chamber rocket engine
RD 190 1 chamber rocket engine
The Raptor engine is now the most advanced engine in the world.
2:02 raiz space lol
Space X is showing Boeing up big time,this Starliner was suppose to launch in 2017 and engines are from Russia,SpaceX builds their own in USA and reuses them,Falcon 20million per launch 45 million for Starliner,Boeing reliability is questionable,bad management!
The Russians make damn good rockets. Its seems Russia never really stopped developing and improving on their rockets/ICBMs and their capabilities-or, atleast has consistently invested in rocket technology in general. Whereas the US seems to have not focused, and invested, as heavily as their Russian counterparts on rocket, ICBMs, engines, efficiency, etc..
Maybe the US is just letting SpsceXs do all the heavy lifting when it comes to all things rockets-you know the whole self landing rockets and what not.
Both started with "borrowed" technology from Nazi Germany
And if Russia start production SSC-X-9 Skyfall we are doomed
that is pure bullshit, Obama did something revolutionary when he was in the office, commercialized the space transportation, and the US gov stopped manufacturing spacecraft. as a result we now have SpaceX and and others. While russian still using their 50-60 y.o. technology.
Well it did it job sending the joke of starliner to space. But space X did it for less keep the rocket untill the volcan is ready
Mars
Next Falycon 9
Rip OmegA
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Falcon 9 pls !!
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Try reusing your boosters.!!
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Space men And women
MHIND
SBIRSK
Russian engines are easily available and cheap to acquire and therefore Russia is willing to sell it.
Wait for Russian Trolls claiming the US can't build rocket engines.. 🤣🤣🤣
Not so easy, Elon Quask wanna buy some and hear no.
@@mateuszzimon8216 İts Musk not Qoask. How about trying to learn some English spelling. Hey this is still science fiction for Russia.
ua-cam.com/video/6YyV-otP3pI/v-deo.html
@@barracuda7018 I know this is Musk/Tusk...
And if u spend a gov money u don't must recycle
@@mateuszzimon8216 Meaningless. It's the technology they developed.
Ahead of any other country in the world. They will be the first landing on Mars.
@@mateuszzimon8216 exactly, so he built his own, a guy with no engineering degree build the best rocket
Totally shameful!!!
But the Americans made it what it is.
Spacex engines are better
Spacex engines are very very very cheap. Better? No way. Spacex took 1950th engines tech and produced it with modern machinery to make it very cheap.
@@bagamut they achieve higher pressure = better than russian
@@florin604 Merlin engines achieve lower pressure
@@florin604 Raptor engines are still under development
@@bagamut in an interview with sal khan Elon did confess buying Russian ICBM