Turbopumps are one of the main components in liquid propellant engines for aerospace use. These machines offer extreme performance, as they are designed to feed the combustion chamber with propellants drawn from tanks that are pressurized to hundreds of bars.
The Vulcain 2 (Mk2) turbopump is common to both the Ariane 5 program and the Ariane 6 launcher family currently under development.
The Vulcain 2 (Mk2) liquid oxygen turbopump offers a flow rate and outlet pressure that are 30% higher than the Vulcain 1. As compared with its predecessor, the Mk2 turbopump features a host of improvements in hydraulics, balance, sealing, and turbine performance.
The S2 and S3 segments (the metallic component is manufactured by MT Aerospace) once thermally protected (at Colleferro), are then shipped to French Guiana where they are each loaded with 107 tons of solid propellant by the Regulus company (joint venture 60% Avio and 40% Ariane Group). All the segments are then integrated by Europropulsion, a company equally shared by Avio and Ariane Group and assembled with the igniter and the nozzle by ASL.
Avio’s corporate governance system gives a central role to the Board of Directors and the Committees.
The CAMM-ER missile program gives to Avio, under MBDA contract, the role to design, develop and qualify the solid-propellant rocket motor of the CAMM-ER air defense missile.
The Aster 30 is an advanced two-stage hypersonic missile system for area defense against aircraft and missile attacks. Avio’s role in the program, under MBDA contract, was to design, develop, test and produce the following system components: propellant, igniter, motor case, fins, nozzle and Thrust Vector Control (TVC). Avio also developed the loading (thermal protection and propellant grain) of the sustainer, the second-stage motor of the Aster missile.