NASA is the most powerful rocket in the world.

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14 September 2011, NASA officially presented the design of the new super-heavy rocket Space Launch System (SLS).

American engineers have designed a new carrier, which can earn the glory of the most powerful in the world. This carrier will serve for the ascent into space not only of the Orion spacecraft, but also of much more weighty aircraft, which are intended for carrying out near-earth missions and flights to planets and asteroids.





For the rapid improvement of the SLS, many technical elements will be used, remaining from the shuttle program and the already forgotten “Constellation” program, which was the project of the second landing of a man on the Moon.

In the original performance, which was presented as an illustration, the height of the SLS should be about 98 meters, and in a more enhanced version - almost 122 meters. The weight of these missiles, respectively, should be 2495 and 2948 tons. The force at the start should be equal to 3810 in the original and 4173 in the enhanced version.

NASA is the most powerful rocket in the world.


The first step of the SLS will be a converted external shuttle tank, which will be equipped with upgraded engines and solid fuel boosters also from the shuttles (RS-25D / E).

In the second stage, variations are possible depending on the design. But even in this case, direct inheritance will be overlooked. SLS will use J-2X engines that were created at the time of working on the Constellation program. These engines were also borrowed in turn from the second and third stages of the well-known lunar rocket Saturn V, but during the program "Constellation" were modernized and improved.

Each of the SLS stages will operate on liquid oxygen and hydrogen. In its initial variation, SLS will be able to put about 70 tons into low Earth orbit.

The subsequent enhanced modification will be much larger and heavier. In this embodiment, the first stage will have five shuttle engines (in the original version of the 3 engine), and it will have increased accelerators, which may well be replaced with liquid ones. The second stage of the enhanced version of the SLS will also differ to a large extent from the second stage of the initial modification, since this “advanced” SLS will have to be put into space orbits up to 130 tons.

At the official presentation of this super-heavy rocket, NASA highlighted the modularity and flexibility of this development, as this makes it possible to optimally adjust each SLS to its upcoming load.

The first flight of this new rocket is to take place at the end of 2017 of the year. The implication is that this will be the unmanned flight of the MPCV or its “progenitor” - the Orion.
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    1. 0
      19 September 2011 08: 29
      The Pindos made fun of it, I will watch the next VaporWare with interest. What happened to the "Constellation", I think everyone remembers.
      1. Ivan35
        +1
        19 September 2011 19: 06
        I’m not funny - I am wary of all their technical innovations -
        When you print money and rob the whole world - you can do whatever you want - and their technical breakdown strengthens their dominance over the world

        Such a superheavy rocket will not only fly to asteroids - it can launch heavy battle stations into orbit

        We must take the enemy very seriously and strengthen as we can
    2. MKALEKSEY
      -2
      19 September 2011 13: 29
      In the 90s, the Yuzhnoye design bureau gave a new (at that time) rocket to the Pindos "to maintain democracy." So the New American rocket is a copy of that (judging by the photo)
    3. Che
      Che
      -4
      19 September 2011 13: 45
      Our developments are already in Pindostan.
    4. svvaulsh
      0
      19 September 2011 14: 18
      But what about the Soviet "Energy". It was developed at the end of the 80s under a load of 100 tons!
    5. -3
      19 September 2011 14: 35
      ... someone doubts that the Americans will do it and launch it ??????
      leadership in space exploration has long been with them ... (not what evil to envy)
      1. -1
        19 September 2011 18: 35
        the dude with the unpronounceable name made fun of. Could you remind me how things are with the Constellation program? Can you tell me who pays for the delivery of their cargo by the Unions and Progress to orbit? What's with the shuttle replacement? They presented (very witty, of course, 12 elephants) an unrealizable dream collected from old rubbish, hoping to spin the congress for at least some money, a miserable pendosnya.
      2. +3
        29 June 2014 00: 04
        Quote: rumpeljschtizhen
        ... someone doubts that the Americans will do it and launch it ?????? leadership in space exploration has long been with them ...
        Today Americans fly more and more on our Soyuz. So there is more than enough doubt about their "talents".
    6. 0
      19 September 2011 15: 06
      you don’t have to joke, the Americans with their money and perseverance will achieve their goal. but here we are rolling down eating the great heritage of the USSR.
      1. +1
        19 September 2011 15: 51
        You don’t have to joke, but there’s nothing to admire either, there’s nothing revolutionary in this rocket. Still on Energy, the rocket used was an ordinary, albeit a large truck, so guys
        1. -2
          19 September 2011 18: 38
          datur, what's up with the hangar?
          Do the Pendos, putting on a "new" missile, for example, J-2X, RS-25D / E roll down, eating up the great past of the United States? Before carrying the asshole, isn't it worth getting into the topic a little?
    7. 0
      19 September 2011 15: 54
      it’s more likely not about the revolutionary nature of the project ... but the fact that they smoothly go further into space exploration .. chose the evolutionary branch of development. and move forward without slogans ...
      1. -2
        19 September 2011 18: 39
        ))) Well, it's just 5! Schizophrenic punctuation as though hints.
    8. raf
      0
      19 September 2011 16: 16
      So far, this is only "Funny Pictures"! And we'll see. Remember how beautifully they fantasized about the SOI program! Yes, the Pindos fantasize beautifully!
      1. +2
        29 June 2014 00: 07
        Quote: raf
        Yes, they fantasize beautifully!

        Well, still, the whole Hollywood works for them. And there they have Voyager, and Enterprise, and the Death Star, and even the Star Gate are working.
    9. Ruslank
      -1
      20 September 2011 04: 50
      varnaga, listen to sober-minded people, don’t be a ridiculous hysteric; all our best has already passed. It’s easiest to grin at the Americans and rest on their laurels.
      1. 0
        20 September 2011 06: 16
        Ruslank, first of all, where did you see the hysteria? secondly, where did I say "all our best"? Thirdly, I shouldn't attribute my aspirations to a "better" life. And fourthly, I read your comments and I can safely suggest that you go to the site http://www.ned.org/grantseekers and press the coveted Apply for Grant button, or already? Between us, eh? Or already, working out the advance payment of the State Department?
    10. Dovmont
      +1
      20 September 2011 19: 02
      Well, that's unlikely! So far they cannot do anything without our RD-180.
    11. 916-th
      0
      20 September 2011 20: 23
      The Yankees have always been practical and pragmatic. Why discard old projects when they can be used in new projects? Ares-1 and Ares-5 did not go within the framework of the "Constellation" program - they pushed off from Saturn-5 and the Shuttle and create a new launch vehicle of a heavy class. And, most likely, they will do it by 2017.

      What about us? And we have traditionally - first, we will destroy everything to the ground, and only then ...

      Everyone's memory has definitely lost their memory that in the 80s, at the suggestion of Gorbachev, they silently buried the breakthrough transport system "Energia" (PN = 100t) - supposedly there was no suitable PN for it (except for "Buran", of course).

      Having created the Energia launch vehicle in 1986, we had a head start of 31 (!!!) years before the Yankees with their current project SLS. of them 6 years are left. Now, instead of endlessly modernizing the Soyuz grandfather, we urgently need to return to the groundwork for Energia and develop the direction of heavy and super-heavy launch vehicles at an outstripping pace, after all, not starting from scratch ... By the way, there was the potential for increasing the PN up to 200 and even 500 (!) tons ("Volcano" configuration) has been laid.

      More details about LV "Energia" are here:
      http://www.buran.ru/htm/gubanov3.htm
    12. 0
      12 February 2013 17: 17
      The Yankees are true to themselves. Straight forward rod. Yes, perseverance they do not hold.
    13. +3
      29 June 2014 21: 52
      Honestly, all this somehow does not fit with the REAL state of affairs in American rocket science. It is in the production of launch vehicles. I don’t remember when the Americans had their own start. And given that they generally buy engines from Russia, then in general all this is more and more like simple projection, designed to mask the failure in the space program.

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