Soviet nuclear rocket test

On Jan 6, 4:39 am, Ian Parker wrote:
On 6 Jan, 07:36, Pat Flannery wrote: Damon Hill wrote:
http://www.kbkha.ru/?p=8&cat=11¡Ç=66

RD-0410, designed by Khimavtomika (Chemical Automation?)

Nuclear rocket engines don't generally have high thrust, just high
specific impulse (Isp). The Soviet NTR was a low thrust development
equivalent to early NERVA models, but pretty sophisticated.

Sure had a lot of odd little goodies down at the base of that mounting
frame, didn't it?:http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/r/rd0410.jpg
What are all those small cylindrical things anyway?
And did you ever see so much plumbing on a rocket engine in your life? :-\

The quoted thrust is 3.59 tons - rather short of S5. The quoted gas
temperature is 3500 with a specific impulse of 910 of just under 9km
sec. It does seem a little bit Nervaski.

- Ian Parker

Where's William Mook on this?

~ BG