Rutherford (rocket engine) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-17

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Rutherford is a liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by American-New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab and manufactured in California. It uses LOX and RP-1 as its propellants and is the first flight-ready engine to use the electric-pump feed cycle. It is used on the company's own rocket, Electron. The rocket uses a similar arrangement to the Falcon 9, a two-stage rocket using a cluster of nine identical engines on the first stage and one, optimized for vacuum operation with a longer nozzle, on the second stage. The sea-level version produces 24 kN (5,400 lbf) of thrust and has a specific impulse of 311 s (3.05 km/s), while the vacuum optimized-version produces 24 kN (5,400 lbf) of thrust and has a specific impulse of 343 s (3.36 km/s).It was qualified for flight in March 2016 and had its first flight on 25 May 2017.