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Proton PM

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Native name
  
Протон-ПМ

Key people
  
Igor Arbuzov

Founded
  
1958

Romanized name
  
Proton-PM

Headquarters
  
Perm, Russia

Formerly called
  
I.V. Stalin Plant No. 19

Type
  
Open joint-stock company

Industry
  
Liquid rocket engine manufacturing Aircraft engine manufacturing Turbopumps manufacturing Gas-turbine power station production Metallurgical production

Parent organizations
  
Aviadvigatel, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

OJSC Proton-PM (Russian: ОАО «Протон-ПМ») is a Russian engine and heavy machinery manufacturing plant. It is located in the city of Perm, in the Perm Krai, on the bank of the Kama River. It started in 1958 as the specialized branch of Plant No. 19 named after I. V. Stalin for the manufacturing of the RD-214 rocket engine. In 1964 it was given made a separate entity then known as Second Production. In the later years, it has branched intro producing gas turbine power plants.

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Current engines

Engines in current production at the plant:

  • RD-276 the latest version of the RD-275.
  • RD-191 a liquid rocket engine, burning kerosene and LOX that powers the Angara (rocket) family of launch vehicles.

    • Former engines

    Engines that are no longer produced at the plant.

  • RD-214 a liquid rocket engine, burning AK-27I (a mixture of 73% Nitric acid + 27% N2O4 + iodine passivant and TM-185 (a kerosene and gasoline mix), that powered the R-12 and Kosmos-2.
  • RD-253 a liquid rocket engine, burning UDMH/N2O4 that powers the Proton first stage.
  • RD-275 an improved RD-253.

    • References

    Proton-PM Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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