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Despite the fact that the American entrepreneur and billionaire Ilona Mask is often criticized for various fantastic ideas, theories and even pipe projects, like manned missions to Mars, almost all experts agree that this person has marketer’s amazing flair and true talent inventor and head of the company in the space industry SpaceX understands much better than many scientists.
For this reason, the message Mask in his account in Twitter that he simply admires Russian rocket engines RD-180, which in every respect is simply perfect, world the public perceived with undisguised interest and attention. Ilon emphasized in his tweet: he is ashamed that Boeing and Lockheed cannot create anything like this and therefore forced to missile launch to buy engines in Russia, which today the day is undeniably the best in the world.
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Recall that in July of this year, the American company United Launch Aliance has an agreement with Energomash provides for until 2020 the supply of another six missile from Russia engines RD-180. At the same time, the company management emphasized that it intends to switch to BE-4 engines manufactured Blue Origin. However, BE-4 will only be used on Vulcan Centaur rockets. By the way, the launch of the first of them on such the engine is planned just in 2020.
Therefore, today’s admiration of Elon Mask Russian rocket engines can be perceived as unprecedented marketing ploy. A move, like, from the side of Energomash, only judge for yourself who made it! ..
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