- NEXUS (rocket)
-
NEXUS heavy-lift booster concept. Atlas ICBM at lower left indicates scale.
The NEXUS reusable rocket was a concept design created in the 1960s by a group at General Dynamics led by Krafft Arnold Ehricke. It was intended as the next leap beyond the Saturn V, carrying up to eight times more payload. Several versions were designed, including 12,000 and 24,000 short ton vehicles with payloads of one thousand and two thousand short tons respectively.[1] The larger version had a diameter of 202 feet (61.5 metres).[1][2] It was never built.
Notes
- ^ a b Aerospace projects Review. 3. http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/ev3n1.htm.
- ^ "SP-4221 The Space Shuttle Decision". NASA History. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch2.htm. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
External links
- SP-4221 The Space Shuttle Decision - Chapter 2
- Encyclopedia Astronautica - Nexus
- diagrams of NEXUS versions
Reusable launch systems Partially reusable CurrentPlannedRetiredCancelledCompletely reusable CurrentSpaceShipTwoPlannedRetiredCancelledItalics indicates suborbital launch systems. * - Recovery failed on first three Falcon 1 flights, reusability abandoned thereafterCategories:- Rocketry stubs
- Space launch vehicles of the United States
- Hypothetical spacecraft
- Cancelled space launch vehicles
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
