Sea Dragon (rocket) - Wikipedia
The Sea Dragon was a 1962 conceptualized design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The project was led by Robert Truax while working at Aerojet, one of a number of designs he created that were to be launched by floating the rocket in the ocean.
Sea Dragon: The Largest Rocket in History. | by Marc Yap - Medium
2024年9月2日 · Called Sea Dragon, this concept originated from exploring low-cost, large payload space transportation. Its design, massive in every scale even for rockets, leveraged shipbuilding techniques...
Sea Dragon - Encyclopedia Astronautica
Sea Dragon was an immense, sea-launched, two-stage launch vehicle designed by Robert Truax for Aerojet in 1962. It was to be capable of putting 1.2 million pounds (550 metric tons) into low Earth orbit. The concept was to achieve minimum launch costs through lower development and production costs.
Sea Dragon: The Largest Rocket Ever Conceived
2020年5月14日 · Sea Dragon was a 1962 design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift vehicle. It is the largest launch vehicle ever conceived and the second largest in terms of low Earth orbit payload capacity. Artist's depiction of a Sea Dragon night launch (youtube.com)
Sea Dragon is the Biggest Rocket We Ever Dreamed Of
2017年8月11日 · The first stage, measuring 262 feet (79.8 meters), burned a mix of Kerosene (RP-1) and liquid oxygen (LOX) at a 2.3:1 ratio pressurized with methane to produce an incredible 80 million pounds of thrust. Atop the first stage was an interstage made of aluminum with reinforcing stiffeners.
Sea Dragons & Skycycles: The life and rockets of Bob Truax
2016年2月16日 · During the early 1960s Traux began to experiment with his sea launch principle with two proof of concept projects, Sea Bee (using and Aerobee rocket) and Sea Horse using a Corporal rocket. During these tests he gradually lowered the rockets closer to the water of San Francisco bay across a series of test firings.
Sea Dragon (rocket) | National Aeronautics and Space …
The Sea Dragon was a 1962 design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital rocket. The project was led by Robert Truax while working at Aerojet, one of a number of designs he created that were to be launched by floating the rocket in the ocean.
The Enormous Sea-Launched Rocket That Never Flew - Popular Mechanics
2017年4月3日 · A two-stage rocket, the Sea Dragon was, on paper at least, capable of "putting 1.2 million pounds (550 metric tons) into low Earth orbit," according to Encylopedia Astronautica. That is...
Sea Dragon-1 - Encyclopedia Astronautica
Sea Dragon-1. LOx/Kerosene propellant rocket stage. Truax pressure fed design. Sea level thrust shown. Thrust, chamber pressure varies during ascent. Vacuum thrust at cut-off 40 million kgf. Total mass, specific impulse estimated from booster performance figures. Status: Study. Thrust: 356,900.00 kN (80,234,300 lbf).
The Biggest Rocket ever Designed? – The Sea Dragon
2017年4月2日 · This was the Sea Dragon, a super heavy lift rocket that would have been 10 times more powerful with 80 Million lb’s of thrust compared to the Saturn’s 7.8 million and that was from just one massive engine. It was designed to lift a payload of 1,100,000 lbs into orbit, compared to the 310,000 lbs of the Saturn V.