heavy lift vehicle

  1. 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)...
    • TheKutKu
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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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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  2. 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
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Propulsion
  3. 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...
    • TheKutKu
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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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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  4. 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...
    • uk 75
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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
  5. 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"...
    • athpilot
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    • early 1990s heavy lift vehicle moon nasa nasa first lunar outpost program post-cold war
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  6. 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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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  7. 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
  8. 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
    • Replies: 61
    • Forum: The Bar
  9. 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
    • Replies: 60
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  10. 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
    • Replies: 120
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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