Engine

RS-25

An extremely-powerful hydrolox main engine, with a long history from the NASA Space Shuttle program.

Engine Info

In Service
Hydrogen
Specifications
Sea-Level
Vacuum
Number of Chambers
Chamber Pressure
Performance
Sea-Level
Vacuum
Thrust (kN)
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Specific Impulse (km/s)
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Additional Background

Though these engines were originally used on the re-usable Space Shuttle, they are now discarded in the flight configuration of the SLS.

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