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Credit: NASA
American SSTO VTOVL orbital launch vehicle. Early 1960's recoverable launch vehicle proposed by Krafft Ehricke at General Dynamics. Perhaps the largest conventionally-powered launch vehicle ever conceived, it was designed to deliver 900 metric tons to low earth orbit.

Status : Design 1962. Payload : 450,000 kg (990,000 lb). Gross mass : 21,820,000 kg (48,100,000 lb). Height : 122.00 m (400.00 ft). Diameter : 45.70 m (149.90 ft). Span : 50.00 m (164.00 ft).

Fully fueled, it would weigh as much as an ocean-going freighter. It would carry a 900 metric tons to orbit, allowing it to launch a spaceship bound for Mars. This behemoth would have a diameter of 50 m with its height approaching that of the Washington Monument. It would fly as a single-stage launch vehicle. Fully recoverable, it would touch down in the ocean following a return from orbit. Parachutes would slow its descent. Retro-rockets, firing during the last seconds, would assure a gentle landing.

LEO Payload: 450,000 kg (990,000 lb).



Family : orbital launch vehicle , SSTO . Country : USA . Agency : Convair .

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