Nova MM T10EE-1

American heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. Two stage Nova using CD modules; expendable first stage with 18 modules exhausting to a 10% length plug nozzle; expendable second stage with 2 CD module engines. Operational date would have been November 1976.

LEO Payload: 462,000 kg (1,018,000 lb) to a 185 km orbit.

Stage Data - Nova MM T10EE-1

• Stage 1. 1 x Nova MM T10EE-1-1. Gross Mass: 4,944,000 kg (10,899,000 lb). Empty Mass: 317,000 kg (698,000 lb). Thrust (vac): 96,379.000 kN (21,666,861 lbf). Isp: 454 sec. Burn time: 210 sec. Isp(sl): 377 sec. Diameter: 21.30 m (69.80 ft). Span: 23.70 m (77.70 ft). Length: 57.50 m (188.60 ft). Propellants: Lox/LH2. No Engines: 18. Engine: CD Module. Status: Study 1963. Comments: Operational date would have been November 1976. Expendable stage.

• Stage 2. 1 x Nova MM T10EE-1-2. Gross Mass: 1,125,000 kg (2,480,000 lb). Empty Mass: 136,000 kg (299,000 lb). Thrust (vac): 11,032.000 kN (2,480,092 lbf). Isp: 454 sec. Burn time: 393 sec. Isp(sl): 377 sec. Diameter: 21.30 m (69.80 ft). Span: 21.30 m (69.80 ft). Length: 23.30 m (76.40 ft). Propellants: Lox/LH2. No Engines: 2. Engine: CD Module. Status: Study 1963. Comments: Operational date would have been November 1976. Expendable stage.