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N-IMV-II-III

Launch vehicle · Russia

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N-IMV-II,III
N-IMV-II,III

Russian heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. N-IMV-II, III was the ultimate conventionally-powered N1 ever considered. It paired the monster N-1M first stage with new cryogenic second and third stages. Both liftoff thrust and payload of this vehicle would have been double that of the American Saturn V.

LEO Payload: 230,000 kg (500,000 lb) to a 220 km orbit at 51.60 degrees.

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Russia