The RD-180 engine powers ULA's workhorse Atlas 5 rocket.

United Launch Alliance said it ordered 20 more RD-180 rocket engines from Russia to supplement the 29 engines it ordered before Russia’s invasion of the Crimea region of Ukraine last year.

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