Heavy Lift Carrier 2015
Launch vehicle · USA
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Heavy Lift Carrier 2015
Credit: © Mark Wade
American heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. ATK Thiokol concept for a shuttle-derived heavy lift vehicle with a lift equivalent to the Saturn V. The radical reconfiguration would put all elements in-line. Four SSME engines would be at the base of a stretched external tank, flanked by two shuttle RSRM motors with a fifth segment added. Atop this would be an 8.7 m diameter LOx/LH2 stage, followed by a 10-m diameter payload fairing. Availability would be ten years after go-ahead.
LEO Payload: 102,000 kg (224,000 lb) to a 500 km orbit at 51.60 degrees.
Related
- Family
- heavy-lift, orbital launch vehicle
- Country
- USA
- Agency
- Thiokol