Rolls-Royce RZ-2
The British-built liquid engine used in pairs on Blue Streak and Europa's first stage.
Identity
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- model
- Kind
- liquid-rocket-engine
- Name
- Rolls-Royce RZ-2
- Status
- historical
Details
- Description
- The British-built liquid engine used in pairs on Blue Streak and Europa's first stage.
- Developers
- Lineage
- Note
- ESA identifies the RZ-2 as the Rolls-Royce-built Rocketdyne S-3 engine produced under licence.
- Related Propulsion System
- Relationship
- licensed-production-of
- Sources
- Nested value
- Manufacturers
- Propellants
- keroseneliquid oxygen
- Rocket Specs
- Burn Time S
- 160
- Sea Level Thrust Kn
- 667.2
Links
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:16:06 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:16:59 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-07-29
- Note
- Supports the legacy vehicle installation and the narrow canonical identity used for migration.
- Publisher
- Official vehicle or program source
- Title
- Europa II Launch Vehicle official vehicle reference
- Accessed Date
- 2026-07-29
- Publisher
- European Space Agency
- Title
- Europe: more than thirty years of pioneering space