heavy lift vehicle

  1. Graham1973

    McDonnell Douglas Barbarian launch vehicle

    Hazegrey Art just released another CGI video this time covering a McDD competitor to the Titan 'Barbarian'... View: https://youtu.be/RvO31_Odpyg
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    • cold war heavy lift vehicle launch vehicle mcdonnell douglas nasa post cold war sdi space age space launch system space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force usa
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  2. uk 75

    Was a Manned Mars mission in 1982 feasible?

    The political and financial answers to this question were dealt with here . https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/space-1975-could-von-brauns-vision-have-worked.32299/page-2 What I really wanted to know and still do, was could it have been done technically? or was it just too complex? For...
  3. TheKutKu

    Chinese orbital launcher projects

    I noticed there wasn't a general thread for this, so I created this since there are a lot of unrealised chinese launcher projects. Starting with one that's already described on astronautix, but I'm posting a source, taken from Xiandong Bao "A Modular Space Transportation System" (IAF-92-0857)...
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    • 1990s 2000s aerospace industry china aerospace science and technology corporation china national space administration early 21st century heavy lift vehicle late 20th century ministry of aerospace industry (prc) people's liberation army people's republic of china post-cold war satellite communications satellite phones
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  4. J

    Gelled fuels: Luminal-A, Alumizin, etc

    Michel Van: "One Moment Luminal-A ? was Glusko also in Alumizine propellant ?!" Right, luminal-a is soviet analog of american alumizine. Some theoretical works was conducted at OKB-456 (chief designer V. P. Glushko; today NPO "Energomash"), then conducted some static fire tests. OKB-456 has...
    • JetPropulsion
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    • cccp cold war heavy lift vehicle icbm red fleet slbm soviet navy soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space race ussr
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    • Forum: Propulsion
  5. TheKutKu

    Euclid ULLV SSTO

    I stumbled upon this while reading Edward Hujsak's 1994 The Future of U.S. Rocketry. ULLV stands for "Ultra Large Launch Vehicle" This is a concept by the "Perigee West Company of La Jolla, California", which Edward Hujsak happened to be the president of, the company got several hundred...
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    • cold war department of defense early 1990s heavy lift vehicle late 1980s nasa nuclear rockets post-cold war single-stage-to-orbit ssto super-heavy-launch-vehic ullv united states
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  6. uk 75

    Moon 1970s

    As the US looks to go back to the Moon with Artemis my question here is, what might have been feasible in the 1970s to keep the US sending manned expeditions to the Moon? Clearly, the main obstacle was a political one. With no Soviet manned lunar programme once the US had got to the Moon first...
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    • 1970s apollo applications program apollo program apollo x cold war heavy lift vehicle lunar moon moonbase nasa space age space race space station united states
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  7. athpilot

    Comet Rocket 1992/93 HLLV

    NASA's Lunar Outpost Heavy Lift Vehicle: The Comet Rocket <iframe width="560" height="315" src=" View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSZtnRJzSBA " title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"...
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    • early 1990s heavy lift vehicle moon nasa nasa first lunar outpost program post-cold war
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  8. bgire

    France unbuilt space launchers of the 60's and 70's

    Hello All :) I've been on this forum for ten years and this is my first post. 35 years ago I co-wrote for the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society a detailed study of the French National Space programme form the 1950's until its termination to pass onto Ariane in 1973...
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    • cold war french fifth republic heavy lift vehicle jet age space age space race
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  9. A

    India Future Manned Space projects

    Hi, India is engaged in a low-scale manned space effort crowded with many would be items in the wish list. One of them is the MANAV "Manned Space Vehicle". Let's see which information shows up with time… A.
    • antigravite
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    • 2010s 2020s cold war ii early 21st century heavy lift vehicle isro post-cold war republic of india
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  10. Michel Van

    Advance Ariane 5 studies from 1990s

    ESA made in beginn 1990 several study for advance Ariane 5 rocket, what let to big Ariane super lourd concept 1991 also they study this interesting Idea Ariane 5 with TWO Vulcain (HM60) engines with each 800 kN thrust and 220 tons fuel in EPC The Idea behind the concept is this Problem...
    • Michel Van
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    • 1990s 2000s arianespace cold war early 21st century european space agency heavy lift vehicle late 20th century post-cold war reusable launch vehicle space age space race vtvl war on terror western europe
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  11. Triton

    Aerojet-General Sea Dragon

    Sea Dragon Concept, Volume III, Aerojet-General Corporation, February 12, 1963 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880069340_1988069340.pdf The hunt is on to find Volume I and Volume II!
    • Triton
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    • cold war heavy lift vehicle nasa space age space race united states
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  12. Triton

    Nova launch vehicle (post-Saturn)

    Artist's depiction of a comparison of US launch vehicles including the Nova. Source: http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGL-NASA-PHOTO-U-S-SPACE-VEHICLES-COMPARISON-/260653187154?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0
    • Triton
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    • 1960s apollo program boeing cold war convair douglas aircraft company missile & space division general dynamics heavy lift vehicle martin marietta corporation nasa nasa marshall space flight center post-apollo space age space race united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  13. XP67_Moonbat

    Centurion HLV Concept

    Another one from the lasses and lads at GA Tech: https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/8382/1/aiaa_2004-3735_paper.pdf
  14. RyanC

    The Battle for Constellation Begins.

    Story NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way. When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed...
    • RyanC
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    • 2010 early 2010s heavy lift vehicle lunar moon moonbase nasa obama administration
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  15. Triton

    Amroc Industrial Launch Vehicle (ILV)

    Artist's impression of American Rocket Company (Amroc) Industrial Launch Vehicle (ILV) 1 being launched from Vandenburg Air Force Base. Source: "Amroc tests continue" Flight International June 13, 1987 http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1987/1987%20-%200756.html
    • Triton
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    • 1980s cold war heavy lift vehicle nasa space age space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force
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  16. Michel Van

    Ariane 5 Prototypes evolution 1977 to 1985

    already in 1977 were studies for Ariane with Lox/Lh2 upperstage those became 1977 to 1982 the Ariane 5R study aka in Forums "the Ariane 5 Common core booster" design Note code: P=solid fuel, L=Liquid fuel, H=Lox/LH2 fuel. Number=fuelmass in tons 1977 "Systéme Ariane Véhilcule Habitable" study...
    • Michel Van
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    • 1980s arianespace cold war european space agency heavy lift vehicle late 1970s space age space race western europe
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  17. flateric

    Chelomey OKB-52 UR-700 rockets family

    1). UR-700K 2). UR-700 with RO-31 nuclear rocket engine (250 t to LEO) all images (c) NPOMash please don't repost anywhere 3). UR-700 compared to N1 and Saturn V
    • flateric
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    • cccp chelomei bureau cold war heavy lift vehicle icbm nuclear rockets soviet moon program soviet strategic missile troops soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space age space race tskbm design bureau ussr
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  18. Triton

    Saturn V-4X(U) what was it for?

    Does anyone know what they intended to use the Saturn V-4X(U) for? Was this intended for the lifting of modules for the space station? http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/saturnv.htm
    • Triton
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    • boeing cold war heavy lift vehicle late 1960s nasa space age space race united states
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  19. Triton

    Soviet N1 rocket

    I have read conflicting information concerning the Soviet N1 rocket. Some sources say that the 30 engine design of the first stage was fatally flawed and the complex piping was damaged during rail transport to Baikonur. But then another source says that Nikolai Kuznetsov continued to work to...
    • Triton
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    • cccp cold war heavy lift vehicle moon rocket soviet moon program soviet union space age space race ussr
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  20. Michel Van

    Douglas ROMBUS

    Philip Bono master piece "Reusable Orbital Module-Booster & Utility Shuttle"from 1964 http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rombus.htm is SSTO (VTOVL) with payload 450 tons in 185 km Orbit. with a plug nozzle rocket engine design, used also as heat shield during atmospheric reentry. most of LH2 fuel...
    • Michel Van
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    • cold war deep space probes douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division heavy lift vehicle mars moon moonbase nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space race ssto
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