ULA orders more RD-180's

[ugordan]

Wish we would have started building the RD-180's here.  From what I understand we had a license to do so several years ago.  Atlas could still be flying.

A domestically built RD-180 would have been significantly more expensive due to higher U.S. wages. That's why it never really materialized.

It's a great engine, but that's how things stand.

[russianhalo117]

Wish we would have started building the RD-180's here.  From what I understand we had a license to do so several years ago.  Atlas could still be flying.

A domestically built RD-180 would have been significantly more expensive due to higher U.S. wages. That's why it never really materialized.

It's a great engine, but that's how things stand.

And material cost due to having to export all raw resources such as alloys from the Russian Federation.

[TrevorMonty]

Wish we would have started building the RD-180's here.  From what I understand we had a license to do so several years ago.  Atlas could still be flying.

A domestically built RD-180 would have been significantly more expensive due to higher U.S. wages. That's why it never really materialized.

It's a great engine, but that's how things stand.

And material cost due to having to export all raw resources such as alloys from the Russian Federation.

To economoical would need to be 3D printed, which would endup as redesign exercise.  Easier to start a fresh with model design.

[Exastro]

Wish we would have started building the RD-180's here.  From what I understand we had a license to do so several years ago.  Atlas could still be flying.

A domestically built RD-180 would have been significantly more expensive due to higher U.S. wages. That's why it never really materialized.

It's a great engine, but that's how things stand.

And material cost due to having to export all raw resources such as alloys from the Russian Federation.

To economoical would need to be 3D printed, which would endup as redesign exercise.  Easier to start a fresh with model design.

Or finish AR1?

[Alter Sachse]

AV 108 RD-180 No, 114T

[DanClemmensen]

Wish we would have started building the RD-180's here.  From what I understand we had a license to do so several years ago.  Atlas could still be flying.

A domestically built RD-180 would have been significantly more expensive due to higher U.S. wages. That's why it never really materialized.

It's a great engine, but that's how things stand.

And material cost due to having to export all raw resources such as alloys from the Russian Federation.

To economoical would need to be 3D printed, which would endup as redesign exercise.  Easier to start a fresh with model design.

Or finish AR1?

Or use four Merlins to replace the one dual-throat RD-180. Merlins are  highly reliable and should be available in large quantity.
(Yes, this is a joke. ULA has moved to Vulcan and terminated Atlas production.)

[Alter Sachse]

Atlas 5 AV-100

RD-180 124T

[Alter Sachse]

Atlas 551 Amazon LEO-launch

RD-180  94T

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Thank you !

my list:

Bold numbers from Josh

Updated list as attached
Not yet shown up: 87T, 91T, 92T, 96T, 112T, 113T, 116T, 117T, 121T, 125T / AV-089, AV-103, AV-106, AV-109, AV-110, AV-112 to 116

Interestingly your list has AC-206/NROL-23 as launching on RD-180 s/n 8T while Josh_from_Canada listed it using the refurbished 6T1 (you have it used almost a decade later with the Worldview-3 launch in 2014).