NK-33
The Soviet oxygen-rich staged-combustion engine later modified into Aerojet's AJ26.
Identity
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- model
- Kind
- liquid-rocket-engine
- Name
- NK-33
- Status
- historical
Details
- Description
- The Soviet oxygen-rich staged-combustion engine later modified into Aerojet's AJ26.
- Developers
- Lineage
- Note
- Rostec identifies NK-33 as the modification developed from the N1 first-stage NK-15 during flight-test refinement.
- Related Propulsion System
- Relationship
- direct-derivative-of
- Sources
- Nested value
- Manufacturers
- Propellants
- RP-1liquid oxygen
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 08:15:54 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 11:51:43 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-07-29
- Publisher
- NASA
- Title
- Orb-3 Accident Investigation Report: Executive Summary
- Accessed Date
- 2026-07-29
- Publisher
- Rostec
- Title
- Moving upward: Kuznetsov space engines