Article: BOEING DESIGNING FIRST LARGE REUSABLE HYDROCARBON ROCKET ENGINE.

The Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business of The Boeing Company in Seal Beach, California is deep into design work on a new reusable rocket engine that will generate more than one million pounds of thrust (at sea level) and could be the first-ever multi-mission booster to use oxygen-rich gases in combination with kerosene fuel.

Design of the new engine - the RS-84 - is currently in its first phase under funding from NASA's Space Launch Initiative (SLI). This initial phase was initiated with a $34 million award to Boeing Rocketdyne and ultimately will involve a team of 100 engineers and technicians by the end of the phase next May. Pending NASA acceptance of ...

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