Jet and Rocket Engines
| Jet or Rocket engine | Mass (kg) |
Mass (lb) |
Thrust (kN) |
Thrust (lbf) |
Thrust-to-weight ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RD-0410 nuclear rocket engine | 2,000 | 4,400 | 35.2 | 7,900 | 1.8 |
| J-58 (SR-71 Blackbird jet engine) | 2,722 | 6,000 | 150 | 34,000 | 5.2 |
| Concorde's Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turbojet with reheat |
3,175 | 7,000 | 169.2 | 38,000 | 5.4 |
| Pratt & Whitney F119 | 1,800 | 3,900 | 91 | 20,500 | 7.95 |
| RD-0750 rocket engine, three-propellant mode | 4,621 | 10,190 | 1,413 | 318,000 | 31.2 |
| RD-0146 rocket engine | 260 | 570 | 98 | 22,000 | 38.4 |
| Space Shuttle's SSME rocket engine | 3,177 | 7,000 | 2,278 | 512,000 | 73.1 |
| RD-180 rocket engine | 5,393 | 11,890 | 4,152 | 933,000 | 78.5 |
| F-1 (Saturn V first stage) | 8,391 | 18,500 | 7,740.5 | 1,740,100 | 94.1 |
| NK-33 rocket engine | 1,222 | 2,690 | 1,638 | 368,000 | 136.7 |
| Merlin 1D rocket engine | 440 | 970 | 690 | 160,000 | 159.9 |
Rocket thrusts are vacuum thrusts unless otherwise noted
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